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hello my brother's attacking my family your dad is attacking your family [Music]
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these were the chilling words of 12 year old Daniel James beaver As He begged for
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the police to save him from his two older brothers who were running rampant throughout his house killing everybody
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inside but less than a minute after the phone call began Daniel could be heard screaming and begging for his life until
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the line went dead police arrived at the scene quickly and were greeted by a gruesome scene that had played out all
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across the house blood was found smattered around the porch and a faint Cry for Help could be heard from inside
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the flea came from 13 year old Crystal Beaver but everybody else in the house except for two-year-old Autumn was dead
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one of these surviving beverage children a 13 year old girl saying her brothers were fascinated by mass killings for at
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least a year police heard commotion near the back door of the property and discovered perpetrators Robert and
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Michael Beaver covered in blood and and smiling as if they were proud of what they had done Robert was laughing and
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told police that killing more than one person had turned him into a god unfortunately Robert's interrogation
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tape was never released to the public but fifteen-year-old Michaels is fully available and gives us some insight into
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what drove these boys to commit such a brutal crime I was hoping maybe you could kind of just go back at the
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beginning when all this started and kind of tell me what happened a couple months
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ago we started talking about running page and stuff like that okay seriously the first but then he started buying
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like body armor and stuff where did he buy body armor from eBay Amazon Robert's room was found filled with weapons and
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body armor including machetes hunting knives and daggers apparently they'd been collecting all of this for months
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but when their sister Crystal told their mother about it she simply passed it off
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as normal saying that boys will be boys and there's nothing to worry about she couldn't have been more wrong the guns
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where do you start buying guns from um he bought them online I think the website's like a Bud's Gun Shop Amazon
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he bought two coupons and a shotgun it's like a monster thing I think he bought 250 shotgun rounds
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okay being a 65 close to a thousand rounds of the clocks wow okay where was he supposed to pick first by the ammunition
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who's being shipped into the house knives and machetes were one thing but guns and over a thousand rounds of
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ammunition are a completely different matter so once they'd ordered it to their house they knew that their parents
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couldn't be home when it arrived but what did they even need all of these weapons for it doesn't take a thousand
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bullets to kill five people well it turns out that the brothers had a much much bigger plan tell me more about
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making plans and what you guys talked about making plans real applauded because you just like doesn't hit
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anything Society is pointless and serious that he wanted to like beat like the amount of
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other famous people like Colin button into James Eagan homes so did you guys have a goal do you have a number
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he just wanted I thank you for another like 50. the two boys stayed up late most nights talking and scheming and
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once they realized they were both separately interested in Murder the die was cast and from their perspective
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there was no turning back the boys had grown a bond throughout their lives due to their living conditions their parents
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April and David Beaver were somewhat abusive to their children they were homeschooled and even told not to
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interact with children outside of their own family this left them alone with their own thoughts a lot of the time and
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their only perspective of the outside world was the one that they'd formed in their own minds this is how they
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developed such a negative outlook on society and what drove them to form the next part of their plan you picked a
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date you said yeah which was yesterday yesterday house okay and then we pull the packages to
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show up over the weekend they didn't take through your economy to have out of state with the guns so their plan was
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set Michael even said their idea was to cut up and dismember the bodies of their
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family and hide them in bins while they camped out waiting for the guns to arrive he even added the gruesome detail
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that they only left Autumn alive because they had planned to decapitate her with
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an ax a little while later but of course all of these ambitious plans fell at the
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first hurdle so what was it that happened that night that caused everything to fall apart for the
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brothers the murders began with Crystal who had entered their room at 11 30 pm on the 22nd of July 2015 to the site of
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them gearing up with body armor and knives Michael lured her over to his computer and Robert slit her throat from
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behind and so she fell down and started screaming yeah call the police get dead I think we came
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over and started attacking who so he stabbed your mom with the same knife and we're ready to stab her I think in the
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neck too at this point Crystal had managed to get up and stumble out of the door in an effort to escape but Michael
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quickly followed her and dragged her back inside yeah she was still screaming and then
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that's about the time Dad came down they got a little bit of a fight on the day eventually
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did he cut his throat too the three eldest members of the family were now well and truly out of action with their
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parents dead and Crystal's throat slit bleeding out on the porch they just left their four younger siblings the people
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they thought would give them the least problems this is also where we rejoined the story from earlier and Daniel is on
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the phone with police hitting in his room yeah shortly after Daniel 2 was stabbed 21
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times in the back shoulder and chest the final two victims were hidden in locked
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rooms but Michael managed to convince them that Robert was attacking him too this lured them out and the brothers
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finished their attack by once more stabbing six-year-old Christopher and five-year-old Victoria to death
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throughout this interview though Michael has been placing a huge amount of blame
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on Robert even at points saying that he was just standing there letting Robert do all the work and that he was only
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part of this in the first place because he knew Robert was going to do this anyway and he wanted to be on his good
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side [Music] you know you stab somebody in the neck you know I mean I just kind of how do
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you feel about what you've done now I I didn't like it I mean how do you feel about your mother you watched her get
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stabbed you cut or throw it yourself and you watched her bleed all over the place
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and scream how does that make you feel nice let's think about that unfortunately
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though in his interview Robert had absolutely no concerns telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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eventually clueing the cops in that Michael may have had a larger part than he originally let on the guys that are
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interviewing Robert um I'm getting a quick version of what he's saying that you did yeah yeah and you
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haven't told me everything okay so I know you're not being completely honest I'm just one of like hundreds of people
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that are going to look at this thing we got the state police coming in and every
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single stab wound that you inflicted we're gonna know about everybody's been stacked and you both had knives and we
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know you both stabbed everybody so you guys are kind of at the same level who's going to be honest and make this right
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and who's a liar okay which one do you want to be as is often the case this simple
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rhetoric was all the cops needed to use to get Michael to open up and finally confess to being as big a part of the
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murders as Robert was Michael admitted to slitting the throats of Crystal and his mother as well as stabbing
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Christopher to death and as usual one confession led to another and we gained even deeper insight into the minds of
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these Twisted teens you only stopped your family because they were in the way towards the bigger plan
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this higher count is this a game it's a what kind of become famous kind of good it now fully comes to light that the
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murderers truly weren't personal to any extent and that the entire reason for this Slaughter and any that would follow
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was just for recognition and fame this became even more obvious when searches of the home revealed rolling
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surveillance cameras and storage drives with all of their plans saved to them Robert later revealed that they plan to
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make two videos one to taunt the police with and another to Post online the rest
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of Michael's interview footage consists of him writing a statement that unfortunately was never publicized but
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whatever it was that he wrote must have been pretty messed up as the detective watching over him couldn't even finish
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reading it and reacted like this of course at trial neither of the boys stood much of a chance yet Michael
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attempted to plead not guilty on the grounds of insanity however it didn't go so well for either of them and they were
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both given five life sentences without the possibility of parole the surviving children Crystal and Autumn were adopted
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by the same couple but the fact remains that this once large yet reclusive family now exists solely as a foul
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Legend on the conscience of every person that lives in the erstwhile peaceful town of Broken Arrow