Introducing Blood Is Thicker: The Farris Wheel

On July 5, 2018, Scott Ferris called 911 to report something unsettling.

My father has come up with this one.

Gary Ferris, the beloved family patriarch known as Big Daddy, hadn't been seen in two days.

Scott, along with his siblings and mother, looked everywhere, and that's when they came upon something horrifying.

Look, there's human remains down there. I was like, stay away from there.

After detectives arrived at the scene, they made an even more chilling discovery.

There's a bullet found lodging in a rib bone.

It's a homicide.

Absolutely.

Detectives discovered Gary had been shot, but by whom and why?

From the outside, the 10-acre Ferris family farm looked like the kind of place anyone would be happy to call home.

But on the inside, the reality was much different.

I would don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy.

And every member of the Ferris family suddenly looked like a potential suspect.

This is horrible to have to put on all the secrets on the table.

Secrets involving money.

Around 4.5 million.

In fidelity.

She was the one having the affairs, not him.

And jealousy.

I think a lot of things that have happened in our family get swept under the rug.

Much like an actual Ferris wheel, the blame game went round and round.

He just told me that he thinks my mom might try to poison it.

You kill your daddy. You set your mother up. She goes to prison. You get everything.

I absolutely had nothing to do with my father's death.

I'm Peter Van Satt. From 48 hours, this is Blood Is Thicker, the Ferris wheel.

It has been called the Ferris wheel.

And it was, but it was our Ferris wheel. It was our life.

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