When shotgun blasts killed Georgia businessman, Phillip Heidt, his son Carey, and wounded Phillip’s wife, Linda, investigators wondered if it was a robbery gone wrong. When they discovered a family secret, they suspected murder was the motive. “48 Hours" Correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/14/2012. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened in the Heidt family murder case?
In 2009, three days before Halloween, a grisly crime stunned the seaport town of Anacortes, Washington.
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Whoever went in this house, they went in there with one motive, to execute the people that were inside.
Chapter 2: Who were the victims and what were the crime details?
There were three victims shot, each with single shotgun blast. The shooter comes to carry first, fires.
He was a wonderful husband. He was a wonderful father, and he was just a good man. My name's Robin Hite, and my husband, Kerry Hite, was murdered. And it's been really, really hard.
The shooter leaves Kerry, proceeds to the parents' bedroom. The second shot was to Phillip.
Kerry and Mr. Phillip were very, very close, and they saw each other every day.
Linda was the mother. She's coming out of the bathroom to see what's going on because she doesn't have a clue.
I opened the bathroom door and went in and said, Philip. And then I saw the blast as the gun was turned on me.
The left side of her face was extensively damaged. And then the shot continued through her right shoulder.
I remember waking up, and I was on the floor, and I prayed. I remember very distinctly saying, God, if we're going to do this, I need your strength, because I have none of my own.
Effingham 9-1-1. You're shot.
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Chapter 3: What was the family dynamic and secret affair that complicated the case?
But the killer never set the gas ablaze, perhaps panicking when he heard Linda's desperate call to 911.
Where are you, ma'am?
News of the murders spread quickly in this rural southern community, and so did fear. They must have thought a killer was out in the woods.
They did.
Investigators checked the alibi of a local drug dealer but quickly ruled him out. They next turned their attention to the Heights real estate dealings.
Every time Phillip had had an argument with somebody, you know, we had to go and investigate and talk to those folks, see what was going on with it.
They found no motive and no suspect. But then, McDuffie recalled an unsettling conversation he'd had with Carrie Height only a month earlier.
He knew that his wife was running around on him. Oh. But he did not tell me who it was with. That must have been something of a shock. It was, because every time you saw them together, it was just like the perfect family.
Hardly. As the whole county soon would learn, not only was Robin having an affair, it was with none other than Craig Height, her husband's own brother.
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