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On July 5th, 2018, Scott Ferris called 911 to report something unsettling. >> My father has come up missing.
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>> Gary Ferris, the beloved family patriarch known as Big Daddy, hadn't been seen in two days.
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>> Something's really off here. So, that's when we decided to start searching the property.
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>> Scott, along with his siblings and mother, looked everywhere. And that's when they came upon something
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horrifying. >> Look, there's human remains down there. I was like, "Stay away from there."
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>> After detectives arrived at the scene, they made an even more chilling discovery.
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>> There's a bullet found lodged in a rib bone. >> It's a homicide. >> Absolutely.
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>> If this was Gary Ferris, he'd been shot. But by whom? And why? I'm Peter Van Sant.
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From 48 Hours, this is Blood is Thicker: The Ferris Wheel. Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker:
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