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Jerk, you got a 911 emergency. On July 5th, 2018, Scott Ferris called 911 >> [music]
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>> to report something unsettling. My father has come up missing. Gary Ferris, the beloved family patriarch [music]
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known as Big Daddy, hadn't been seen in two days. Something's really off here. So,
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that's when we decided to start searching [music] the property. Scott, along with his siblings and
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mother, looked everywhere. And that's when they came upon something horrifying. Look, there's human remains down there.
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I was like, "Stay away from there." After detectives arrived at the scene, they made an even more chilling
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discovery. There's a bullet found lodged in a rib bone. It's a homicide. Absolutely. If this was Gary Ferris,
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he'd been shot. But by whom? And why? From the outside, the 10-acre Ferris family farm looked like the kind of
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place anyone would be happy to call home. But on the inside, the reality was much
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different. I would don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy.
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And every member of the Ferris [music] family suddenly looked like a potential suspect. This is horrible, man. I had to
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put all of the secrets out on the table. Secrets involving [music] money. Around
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4 and 1/2, 5 million. Infidelity. She was the one having the affairs. Not him. And [music] jealousy. I think a
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lot of things that have happened in our family get swept under the rug. Much like an actual Ferris wheel, the
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blame game went round [music] and round. He just told me that he thinks my mom might be trying to
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poison him. You kill your daddy, you set your mother up, she goes to prison, [music] you get
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everything. I absolutely had nothing to do with my father's death. I'm Peter Van Sant.
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Wheel. And it was, but it was our Ferris Wheel. It was our life. Available wherever
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