The Twisted Case of Pladl Family Murders

[@doctorshell7118]

Those are seriously heavy thoughts for an 11 year old child to have…I’m blown away by her journal entries.

[@peppermintpetty6766]

That’s what I said! To call your father the devil at eleven?! Who knows what he was doing to them to make her feel that way about him.

[@mariastewart9820]

​@@peppermintpetty6766it's odd how the dad called her "retarded" but yet she was actually very smart and spiritually awoke !

[@HKim0072]

Umm, I was in 7th grade at 11. That’s pretty standard cognitive stuff.

[@charlenerobertson-zb4dn]

That poor girl is going to need a lot of therapy to come out of this mess😢

[@adolfolerito6744]

@@charlenerobertson-zb4dnat least I’m sure that she will have an easier time to fix herself, now that both Steven, Katie and their incestuous offspring are no more. At least she can repair the damage and forget that they ever existed.

[@overyondersouthga5244]

EVERY adult in this story has severe mental illness. How terrible to be trapped among all them crazy ppl.

[@xKarenWalkerx]

He is a classic Male Borderline Personality. It presents totally different for men…

[@optimaetaer]

😅🤣😂

[@missyflutter5562]

Those

[@alright_alright]

Adopted parents too?

[@rachealjohnson9739]

​@@xKarenWalkerxdo not lump this Monster with us BPD! I know *MANY* BPD males and NONE are even close to this 🤮 You are very misinformed. I'm also studying criminology and psychology at the Australian college of applied sciences (a university specialising in psychology obviously) It definitely isn't a "borderline" problem. He is a narcissistic abuser, with definitely psychopathic tendencies.

[@areiaaphrodite]

Everything about this case disgusted me from top to bottom. He originally got a 15 year old pregnant, almost murdered his daughter, then once they got Katie back in their lives; he couldn't just be a dad to her, but a pedophile who got his own biological daughter pregnant! Married his own biological daughter, and because the simultaneous father AND grandfather to her child and then murdered them both. Not to mention, her adopted parents and his mother were there all smiling at their weird shotgun wedding as if they were signing off on this like it was all okay?? No. It was an utter disaster from the start!

[@Cansigirlbb]

Facts so disgusting they all gross

[@cadavher]

Dude wtf. Get help! @canav

[@Katies_Modern_Life]

@@canavanibus😂😂

[@deannespuhl3948]

I don't have to watch the video now.

[@TerryFord-sr9nr]

​@@canavanibusI'm praying that was a joke over my head!!🫢

[@ceciliaherpai2788]

WTF!!!!! HOW THE HELL CAN BOTH SIDES STAND THERE AT THEIR WEDDING SMILING?! WTH..... SICK PEOPLE!!!

[@DekuMight45]

Because Katie wasn’t actually his kid, from what I’m starting to think.

[@Mimmi112]

IKR !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@moonlightemily8110]

@@DekuMight45it obviously was

[@nawal10]

@@moonlightemily8110they don't even look alike

[@DwightMassingill]

Your a loser

[@surfergirl2943]

Alyssa is noooo hero!!!! EVERY adult in this equation is to blame. Who goes ahead to have two more children with a freaking creep like Steven. This whole story is so disgusting.

[@ItCantRainForever2]

Remember she was 15 when she got with him. He was very manipulative.

[@egomod]

💯💯💯💯

[@ScarletMarie0007]

She was a child groomed by an adult to feel like he was the only person who would ever love her. She was abused by him and made to think it was all her fault. She isn't a hero but she IS a victim in this as well. She can't do much outside of report incest in this case because everyone was an adult.

[@lindseyyoung9149]

​@@ScarletMarie0007She was groomed as a child yes but she eventually became an adult who was very aware of the type of person he was. She knew better by the time that girl was coming around again! There's NO excuse for that.

[@_Y.Not_]

@@AussieMummy-li8yf wow, you just totally created a version of this story in your own head

[@A1SoniaM]

All the adults ARE ENABLERS. NO ADULT should have attended that DISGUSTING wedding (ALL are mentally sick for smiling in the photos and for bearing witness to that vomit-inducing wedding). The biological mother should have contacted her local insane asylum and had her daughter committed and the keys thrown permanently away. This story made me sick to my stomach. Smh. That 'so called' father is a demon. May he R.I.P.....rot in piss! 🤢🤮

[@stephenrobinson8244]

How tf did they go along with this 🤯😳

[@A1SoniaM]

@@stephenrobinson8244 ...THEY ALL should have been committed to a mental asylum. for life. ALLADULTS INVOLVED. EVERY LAST ONE.

[@charlottegunning1548]

I Love it! RIP- rot in piss!

[@helens-u6606]

Her biological mom was the one telling the police about their incestuous relationship. I’ll cut her some slack

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

@@helens-u6606 Alyssa should have left her "husband" years prior. She left her daughter with a disgusting narcissist, and the two parents probably considered Katie a "peace" OFFERING. I cut her no slack.

[@shmokers5587]

Reminder. You are NOT the bad person if you leave a volatile relationship where they use suicide as a threat. Leave even faster.

[@charlenerobertson-zb4dn]

Yeah! If a man that mentally sick is threatening to commit suicide, it is okay... We all know, barking dogs seldom bite😤

[@shmokers5587]

@@charlenerobertson-zb4dn ooooh i like that barking dogs rarely bite. But to be extra clear it doesnt matter if its male or female anyone threatening self harm "because of you" is a pos and save ya self

[@charlenerobertson-zb4dn]

@@shmokers5587 Agreed 💯👍

[@pickledragonrebel]

Absolutely. That's a huge red flag

[@AC-LING666]

😘😘😘😘Katie 😍😍😍😍

[@davids736]

So after giving up one child for adoption, and knowing exactly what Steven was like, she marries him and has two more children. Unbelievable.....

[@antheairenedevilliers1657]

She doesn't seem to have had much of a moral compass. She knew he was an abuser. Knew his taste for violence and cruelty to animals, yet she chose to keep having babies with him.... WTF??

[@Iwishiwasanyoneelse]

​@@antheairenedevilliers1657 because if she has kids with him, he will beat them instead of her. I hate women who allow men to abuse their kids. She is just as bad as him

[@oneshortgamer2540]

@@antheairenedevilliers1657 because she is probably also messed up, probably in genes?

[@JonesTameka]

She was a child

[@oneshortgamer2540]

@@JonesTameka when she married him she wasn't a child

[@deejayalexkonvictmuzik8505]

I love how that eleven year old daughter foresaw the demon,half demon half human baby and the human big sister who lost her mind.

[@michealdoor7035]

People who hurt defenceless animals are always very very very sick in the head.

[@violagentsch]

And babies

[@user-mt4ku7jw1y]

Evil personified

[@hanzosiku]

​@@violagentschanyone hurting babies is not human at all.

[@Straingelove]

If I ever witness someone hurting an animal I think I’d end up in jail for assault

[@wendles4186]

The biological parents are horrible, especially Steven. Killing cats, pinching the babies, wow! I'm adopted and I have wanted to find my bio family, but this kind of story makes me think twice. This is a horrible story. Steven is evil!

[@chrislair6832]

Don't think twice. This is the most uncommon relationship all that in the world. I have a child I gave up for adoption when I was really young that I hope and pray every day that they reach out and want to meet me

[@serendipia7177]

I would advise to think twice before finding them, I suggest researching about them so you can know who they are, but actually bonding with them could be to dangerous, I know a bio family that now is requesting money from the daughter she is giving the money to them, and adoptive mother has been abused by bio parents, such a mess

[@lilovs9952]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@chrislair6832that’s disgusting. Leave them alone. You fucked around, didn’t take responsibility and now “hope everyday” dude get a grip

[@chrislair6832]

@@lilovs9952 Disgusting? Who the fuck are you? I was a child shit happens I'm a different and a much better person Then I was. I'm not going after them I'm respecting them but it would be cool is all I was saying

[@chrislair6832]

@@serendipia7177 No I totally understand what you're saying me and the mother get updates and he seems like the most amazing person in the world and I don't know where he got it but he's an amazing artist

[@crishuez]

My jaw DROPPED at this episode and I swear it stayed dropped the entire time. Disgusting shoddy police work, corruption of a minor, and I'm shaking right now with anger. GRANDMA AND GRAMPA ARE SICK! This whole thing is TWISTED!

[@AHMAD-2324]

Including the mother her ass wasn't playing with a full deck either...SMGDH

[@laragara]

@@AHMAD-2324 Which one???---- there are FOUR in this tale!!!!

[@leowise206]

The fosterparents probably felt they could not have any influence on her... Well, I guess they should have called the police... But there is a world of difference between knowing what is right and doing what is right.. I was also crying hearing this case, and I am used to seeing and hearing quite bad cases. But this one was really over the edge.

[@serendipia7177]

police was called, katie was even charged and in prison also bc katie was legally an adult minor services could not get involved@@leowise206

[@kryzword]

felt that, i watch these type of documentaries all the time but this one made my blood boil more than anything else

[@miriam100ful]

the father is truly sick, his daughter even looks like him. There is just no excuse except sickness and evil in the head.

[@MarioGoatse]

“She’s so hot though!” -Steven

[@nilswestman4013]

But she was attracted to him.

[@AC-LING666]

You can exactly blame the dad for that , who wouldn't want Katie🤩

[@nawal10]

@@MarioGoatse😂😂😂😂

[@teresaqureshi9909]

The mother is just as guilty , how distressing that she just let that abuse go on. Sick

[@Frogmommyiester]

Did you not hear that once she found out thenkid was in fact preggo she called cops? How is she at fault when she did what she should have? The parents never should've let it happen.

[@teresaqureshi9909]

@@Frogmommyiester yes and I also heard she stayed with him while he abused a baby and did nothing.

[@anaruz4818]

​@@Frogmommyiesterstop making excuses for this kind of people. That $tupid mother is as responsible as the father. You knew at the young age of 15 that that person was tra$h, but after years you still married him and had multiple children with him?? Now not only, but also your 3 children and other people were abu$ed/murd3r3d 🙄🙄

[@Frogmommyiester]

@@anaruz4818 dont judge people you know nothing about homie. I ain't the one. I didnt make an excuse for anyone. Frim the info gathered that is available that mother did what she should. Watch you keyboard warrior too, I ain't the one.

[@MissAyaRok]

​@@Frogmommyiestershe called the police just because she's angry he's sleeping with someone else, she saw him abusing their kids for years, why didn't she call the police then????

[@tuskranger4225]

I feel bad for that 11 year old, it’s clear to see how damaged she is from this

[@WorkingCrassShero]

I couldn't look myself in the eye if I were Katie's adoptive parents or Steven's mother. The smiles on their faces in their wedding photo may my stomach churn, literally begin to churn, with acid. I hope that picture and their pathetic enabling haunt them for the rest of their lives.

[@Koshrocreations]

One of them was killed along with her. Just two left.

[@madsdee7803]

Her adoptive parents were trying to show her they were there for her if she needed to get out. I feel sad for them that they knew she needed them and her adoptive dad was murdered for being a real parent saving his girl from that. I wish they had somewhere else to get away where he didn't know they were.

[@madsdee7803]

I wouldn't judge them harshly since their adoptive daughter was an adult and all they could do was put on fake smiles and be there in case she needed them. Her dad the former cop would have known not to leave her thinking she was stuck with that.

[@serendipia7177]

katie was an adult, adoptive parents persuade her to leave Stevem they were not agree, I see in this post a lot of people blaming parents, and steven is even forgot, remember that by giving responsibility to victims you take away guilt from the actual killer

[@chelleyd4020]

Alyssa is no better

[@RuralJuror420]

This man lives up to the “Beyond Evil” title of this channel. So many disgusting 🤮 things happening in this video. Several victims who in turn victimized others with either complacency or indifference or fear of leaving.

[@reneeklein9159]

The only people that are innocent in this story are the children….. none of the adults and definitely not Katie. All the adults though in this story are absolutely disgusting. Alyssa knew her husband was an abusive loser but she allowed her estranged daughter to move in. ABSOLUTELY ABHORRENT

[@dietdrpepper15]

Yeah Katie was an idiot. Like she was raised by good parents but you move in with strangers…and start sleeping with your father? I can’t with that kinda awful thinking.

[@AHMAD-2324]

FACTS

[@charlenerobertson-zb4dn]

​​@@dietdrpepper15rue! It's as if life, ironically, came full circle for Katie. The same man her biological mom tried so hard to save her from, became her nemesis eventually!

[@rebeccadavila6079]

Looks like the mess cleaned itself up. Too bad about Tony Fusco, though.

[@madsdee7803]

The adoptive parents were innocent too. They had an adult adoptive daughter who did something stupid and they would have known to not leave her there thinking she had no way out if she needed to escape. My sister was with an abuser and at the love bombing phase from him I let her know we were there for her if she needed to get out.

[@Mrs_Banshee]

"Alyssa made numerous attempts to leave him. Steven responded by threatening to blow is brains out"! I am sorry to be blunt but good riddance! It would save a lot of suffering, pain and lives to everyone who fell victim to this psychopath' s violence. She must have abandoned him the first moment she saw him abusing the first baby. My condolences to the victims and their families 😢

[@britth5333]

The journal is the most disturbing thing I’ve ever read. That little girl got one thing right that her father was a devil. How did those people go to that wedding!? Sick! I’m so grossed out. So many poor decisions.

[@madsdee7803]

Her adoptive parents had an ADULT daughter who made her own choice. They were showing her she had support if she needed to get out, like real family do. I think they're the only real family she had. It's a shame they didn't hide away with the baby from him.

[@AdmiralZinji]

The culpability of everyone involved isn't even the most disgusting thing about this.

[@YeshuaDisciple916]

What is, then?

[@noodles8203]

Even the daughter..

[@jamesmelton4412]

@@YeshuaDisciple916probably the dead baby…

[@archlich4489]

@@jamesmelton4412 agreed

[@MarioGoatse]

@@YeshuaDisciple916His eyebrows 🤮

[@cricuts1]

The biological mother could have avoided the whole tragedy by leaving that physco early in her life.

[@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165]

Yes its always the groomed teenager and abused woman who is to blame for a mans disgusting behavior, huh?

[@cricuts1]

@@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165 Not blaming her but she should have made a better choice

[@scallopohare9431]

@@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165No, but situations can be avoided.

[@lh7254]

That psycho could have avoided the whole tragedy by not being abusive, a daughter diddler, and a murderer. No pithy words for him?

[@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165]

@@cricuts1 the person who needed to make a better choice is the pedo rapist man in the situation.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

This case is exceptionally gross. This speaks to a level of mental disorder that I don't even know where to begin with, and I am working on a master's in psychology, specifically looking to work with victims of family violence and abuse of any kind. It's so far beyond the pale that it makes me feel physically ill, and my heart goes out to all of us victims of family violence and abuse. My family didn't abuse me in the same way. My abuse was inflicted upon me by other adults around me at the time, but it didn't help that absolutely no one believed me. Not even my own mother. I know what it feels like to be literally trapped in a horrific situation, so I want to spend the rest of my life working to help others get the help I was refused.

[@CoExist64]

I totally agree, well said. Good luck in career, if you ever start practicing let me know! God bless

[@DrLuke49]

@DeathMetalDerf we hear you and WE LOVE YOU ♥

[@steppin-razor]

Thats awesome we're proud of you

[@jessiefrye3045]

♥

[@curtisj.d.761]

You're good people🤘

[@Bradphil87]

So strange, this girl had everything going for her. Loving adoptive parents, finished school, getting ready for college etc. I don’t understand what happened when she went to visit them that made her throw all of that away for an incest relationship with her biological father. It makes no sense at all to me.

[@dadof3239]

Probably drugs

[@natalier7548]

she didn’t realize she had things going for her, she just knew that she was missing the love of her biological family. people who are adopted deal with feelings of rejection and abandonment. for her to go and feel so loved by her biological parents, specifically her dad, she was drawn in and it felt like a void was filled. then her dad groomed her. that’s how it happens. it’s a slippery, dangerous slope.

[@zoy13]

Women ...

[@dmjack2921]

​@@zoy13yep you are 13yo.....🙄

[@HKim0072]

Obviously, you aren't adopted. Shit gets weird. I had graduated college and was working for a large corporation (first job out of school). And, my biological family contacted me. I was way more equipped to handle it since I had moved far away for college and explored what life was about. Moved again after college. By that time, I had multiple different girlfriend relationships already. Still threw me for a loop. F'd with my head a lot.

[@Traderjoe]

I don’t even know how to process this. Something was seriously wrong with multiple people here

[@rymorrissey9143]

My response to Steven saying he was gonna unalive himself would have been “fucking do it, if anyone ever deserved to, it’s you, so do it” and then I would’ve handed him the gun.

[@mandunya]

Believe it or not that’s 100% illegal

[@Dvgteeth]

No you would not have 💀 real tough guy here

[@texasrefugee7888]

Alyssa is just as culpable, and there is no excuse In my opinion. There's something really wicked behind her little helpless victim facade.

[@AHMAD-2324]

She's mentally ill too

[@TheBlairWenchProject]

_yes. How did she sit and watch him shove her baby into a cooler? Pure evil._

[@Rdwrer]

YES. That is the word I just used when describing the pictures of her. Wicked.

[@cosmemi]

every adult here should be in jail, this is horrific

[@kerryberman609]

Spot on

[@SydneyDrums]

Punishing children for wetting themselves or wetting the bed is so common and it needs to stop.

[@ahsatan8997]

It feels like a huge common denominator in killers and criminals is being punished like this at any age. Cps should get more funding it doesn't do enough to prevent so much evil in this world. Poor Katie what a pawn.

[@cattmartyr8156]

former bed wetter and non-serial killer here 🤚 bed-wetting is 100% a response to feeling unsafe in your home, it’s rarely addressed as such. if a child is wetting their bed, the parents need to look deeper. are we not providing a sense of safety? is the child being abused? being bullied? and ask, no matter how young, is the child depressed? all of these things contribute. punishment reinforces the sense of instability and leads to long term psychological damage.

[@pervinmervin]

Yes they need to stop it. Disgusting children.

[@Mischa21xo]

Those exact parents don't care to look deeper though. They don't give a damn how their kids feel, if they feel safe, if they are happy or if they are depressed, they don't care what their lives are like at school or if they have any friends. Some parents only live to cut their children down and make them miserable, to break them down mentally or physically or both literally any chance they get.

[@cattmartyr8156]

@@Mischa21xo i hate to be on a soapbox here but it took me years of therapy to realize that i was experiencing abuse and once i did, i didn’t love my mother any less. she suffered emotional abuse from her parents. it’s cyclical. children have to believe that their caretakers are competent for their own psychological safety as a survival mechanism. this is why almost all kids ask themselves, “what am i doing to cause this?” even good parents can benefit from therapy, or a good book if they can’t afford it. okay lol i’m done 😅

[@SkeekyDragon]

I 100% blame the mother for sooooo much of this. She is disgusting. To Marry that sick freak and then bring her daughter back to him knowing what he did to her as a baby. She clearly feeds off the darkness surrounding this monster.

[@daniellekernan2052]

That's what the cycle of abuse does to a person. You become completely dependent on the abuser and lose all identify and self worth.

[@serendipia7177]

victim blaming

[@carsonsmith8607]

The mom looks evil to me. The picture of her looking to the side with a black sweater gave me goosebumps. She looks malicious. She's no victim. She's responsible for much of this. Being "young" does not give you an excuse to have kids and keep bringing them into dysfunctional families. We as women know better. The mom is pathetic.

[@chayacarney5873]

Katie’s a little sick too. Father like daughter. Violent delights have violent ends

[@Dvgteeth]

Yall have no idea how the cycle of abuse works and it shows

[@vagurl84]

Wait, the police didn't do anything about the relationship until they were married? WTF? This is so sick.

[@scallopohare9431]

Were they notified? I really didn't get the impression they were specifically told about every aspect. He was eventually arrested for incest, right? Also, this was spread out over several states.

[@shelbyregisterrn108]

This whole case is beyond sickening.

[@mr.meowmeowcat7646]

Good lord!! Y'all have effectively found by far the most disturbing case I've ever ever heard of!! I wasn't even expecting the tragic end, I thought the tale of insest was more than enough. Wooof!!!

[@teenyverse7707]

Alissa only called the police when Katie became pregnant... she knew what was up before that. Katie had issues.... Steven was a narcissist and a predator and took advantage of these vulnerabilities. 🤮🤮🤮

[@equivalentexchangeisalie5726]

Yea I think Katie inherited a bunch of evil ish from her dad. She just have been sick in the head and not mentally all the way there. And it must have been really strong genetics. Since she had grown up living a great and normal life, only to throw it all away in 2 years to marry and procreate with her own father.

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

This story makes me sick 🤢 What kind of “man” puts his baby in a cooler so he can’t here the crying? What a disgusting cowardly thing to do! Then all the rest of his destructive behaviour and then murder!?!

[@vicoregano]

Every adult in this story has either some kind of mental illness or are just disgusting people. I feel bad for Katie but she was 20 years old when you married her own father so that makes her a sicko as well.

[@madsdee7803]

Her adoptive parents had an ADULT daughter who made her own choice. They were showing her she had support if she needed to get out, like real family do. I think they're the only real family she had. It's a shame they didn't hide away with the baby from him.

[@l21n18]

No

[@sweetnhumbled3616]

So sick & twisted . Poor little sisters . 🙏🏼 !!! Thanks Beyond Evil! You guys always show out and come through for us . we appreciate y’all . 🤍

[@pattysniece]

BIG thanks to each and everyone of you that make this channel happen! It's amazing, detailed and very well put together. Great job! Keep up the good work!

[@sheilae.9670]

Yes, I concur

[@ItCantRainForever2]

I agree. They do a great job.

[@misseden0218]

This story gets progressively more horrendous by the minute.

[@SendPeaches]

The fact the mother KEPT having children with him. My God, the stupidity of them both.

[@daniellew.292]

the amount of profanity the 11-year-old used in her diary says a lot about the family dynamics.

[@nickprice7752]

Alyssa should be in prison, she chose to overlook his abuse towards their daughter and instead of leaving she gave her up for adoption and then proceeded to have more children with the same man. Complete negligence and she is every bit as guilty as he was

[@erin6015]

She’s not as guilty as the abuser. It’s difficult to leave an abuser

[@Lucidmoon7]

​@@erin6015no its not.

[@katherinealbee6952]

Agreed. I know narcissistic relationships are hard to get away from, and I felt bad for her at first. But then, when she decided to marry him and have more children with him, that’s when I lost most of my sympathy.

[@rubyrose5839]

@@Lucidmoon7how do you know? He killed Katie when she broke up with him so how he wouldn’t do the same to Alyssa?

[@KatieBlue16]

That Mother has a lot to answer for. Why wouldn't you be so far away from that piece of dirt once he even thought of putting your baby in a cooler box - let alone everything else he dome to them poor children...and that poor cat 😢

[@serendipia7177]

victim blaming, maybe she was afraid of being killed,

[@sonablom]

Welp this one certainly isn't getting monetized. But I appreciate this channel for not censoring or attempting to sanitize the story.

[@shivalishankersharma1562]

I have followed this case and everytime I see their wedding photo with her adoptive parents and his mom, it makes me nauseated. How do you see a pedophile groom and then marry your daughter and stand there smiling. Get the fucking police involved and put that monster in jail.

[@equivalentexchangeisalie5726]

The adoptive parents look soft and weak.

[@chimao215]

Everyone in this story excluding the innocent child is absolutely CRAZY. What the hell is all this? The mother Alyssa, daughter Katie, the adopted parents, Steven...all NUTS!!

[@madsdee7803]

The adoptive parents were there because their ADULT daughter chose to do something stupid and they wanted her to know they were there if she needed them. You don't turn your back on your family especially at times like that and she needed them and knew they were there for her when she knew she was in danger with him. I just wish they had got away with the baby and he didn't know where they were.

[@Desantisgogoboots]

​@@madsdee7803lmfao! The fact those weirdo adoptive parents went to that "wedding" instead of contact the police just shows you why Katie was okay with all of this. And Alyssa is not the saint she's trying to portray herself🤢

[@brittlemons1]

I remember hearing this case. This man is a DISGUSTING human. Sickening. Absolutely sickening. She had such a beautiful life and he came in like a train off the tracks and DESTROYED her.

[@dietdrpepper15]

She had a bit of a hand in destroying her own life. Wish ANY of the adults had stepped in to help and guide her. But she wasn’t raised in that environment so she should have known better.

[@Mynameis1212-c3f]

All the adults involved are sick. Imagine going to the wedding of your daughter marrying her father! Why didn't Alissa leave and have him arrested for abusing Katie? Only then go and have more children with him after she had to give up the first one because of the abuse, I mean it's unbelievable how stupid people are!! I'm not even going to mention his mother. They ALL allowed this to happen 😔

[@madsdee7803]

I stood by my adult sister when she was with an abuser and I let her know she had a way out. That's what real family do and those adoptive parents were her only real family who cared about her there. The other two were using her to make themselves feel better.

[@serendipia7177]

they were arrested and steven paid the fine, read the case, adoptive parents are elder, they get to separated them but it was too late, I agree they could have manage the situation better, but that does not make them guilty of murder, not even of negligence bc katie was an adult so child services could not interfere

[@LarryXLR]

This story is the definition of "getting the bad ending." From the moment she contacted her biological parents.

[@charlottedickerson6675]

The little girl was right , her father was a devil. Amazing how kids sometimes are more intelligent than grown ups.

[@meldavis8888]

I have no words. This is a gross bunch of people .. the parents, his mom, adoptive parents, Katie .. sick, gross & disgusting.

[@mercedeszuniga7272]

So sick! But the mom is just as guilty. Some women don’t deserve to be moms

[@kateharless5659]

This was the first true crime story I ever watched but was by EWU. So disturbing! Watching it again and after all this time and all the other videos I’ve watched, still up there with th most messed up !

[@BSJ-Unparalleled]

Murder is always horrible, but the murder of a child absolutely disgusts me. They’re so innocent, and genuinely good hearted. I don’t care what degree of murder it is. If you kill a child, you should be get life in prison.

[@Alvun416]

But just imagine when the baby grows up to realize that he was the product of an incestuous relationship. I'm not condoning what happened to the baby or anything. Just if it was me, I think I would rather die.

[@far8]

Don't blame him.. he just follow Bible's teaching.. 1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

[@charlenerobertson-zb4dn]

​@@Alvun416true that 👍

[@TimNewton0829]

Death

[@LockDOTspot]

​@@Alvun416but it was not you. Give the kid a chance. Get them away from abusers and they have a chance at a happy life.

[@gaminggoddessaria]

She was old enough to know that it is disgusting and wrong to marry your father and have a baby with him wtf. Plus the guy is a psycho clearly and mentally ill. Like what.

[@americanarborcare]

By far the most bizarre crime story I've ever seen.

[@ashtontk-rw7mo]

This is the most disgusting case ever. Steven was an evil narcissistic monster. He groomed and violated Katie. Alyssa tried to warn Katie but she was brainwashed by him. Its sad what happened after Katie saw what type of man Steven really was. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by this tragedy❤🙏

[@Nightmareman3]

Katie was VERY MUCH old enough to know better . She was sickening as well !!!

[@CoExist64]

OP said nothing about her not being old enough, simply said she was brainwashed. Smdh

[@Nightmareman3]

@CoExist64 The term "Brainwash" gets way overused and abused. She didn't get hypnotized by some master class genius manipulator here. She didn't. People understand at very early ages (like her own 11 yr old sister did !) that having a relationship with family members is DISGUSTING and WRONG FOUL AND UNNATURAL. GFG !

[@DrLuke49]

Alyssa had initially been brainwashed by Steven so everything else that followed is no surprise at all. Pladl should have gone away to prison for all of the animal abuse and killing of cats alone. He should have been allowed to eat the lead sandwich he had kept threatening to give himself.

[@dietdrpepper15]

@@Nightmareman3I kinda agree, she just believed this jobless bum, girl you have good parents, so just blindly sleeping with her father…nah that her idiocy right there.

[@MerkleAkrunphleuphle]

WTF katies adoptive parents went to the wedding...

[@ItCantRainForever2]

Something wasn't right with them. They couldn't even take her with the baby.

[@thelunchlady8276]

Free cake and booze. Who could blame them?

[@serendipia7177]

this makes no difference darling, they told katie to leave steven, cops were called, kaite was arrested, steven paid the fine, no difference, parents were not agreed, went to wedding reluctantly, this is the kind of case in which no matters how people acts, steven will kill katie anyways, I have been there abuse man kill you when you leave

[@Justinrode2001]

@@thelunchlady8276 good one 😂

[@traceyback7139]

I would never in a billion years marry my dad. But if I even told my family that I wanted to Marry my dad I would have been locked up into the mental ward and the key would of been thrown away. I feel so bad that those people were killed though it’s so very sad.

[@Mama-tea]

And yet the mother never left even when he’d put her in a cooler. Great Mother

[@rrrrrriva]

Great victim shaming. It was HE who did it

[@katiemary8075]

@@rrrrrrivashe’s not a victim, she gave her baby away so she could stay with that monster.

[@sheilae.9670]

​@@katiemary8075exactly! I was shocked she stayed with him and had 2 additional kids, like wth? Smh

[@RantGrumps]

@@rrrrrriva stop with this "victim shaming/blaming" shit.

[@CoExist64]

@@RantGrumpsthere ARE far too many times when people DO actually blame the victim, this may not be one but you need to open your eyes and not flat out say it doesn’t exist!

[@TheNinnyfee]

There were so many instances in which adults could have stepped in. Who lets their kid go to school with the same exact sweater, and which teacher what teacher never investigate this child? And who lets their minor daughter leave with a groomer? The numerous instances somebody could have stopped this...And of all people his mother got custody of the baby boy??? WTF?

[@sirshep4915]

He’s sick , but also it’s so horrible for her to leave her parents of 18 years and a perfect life

[@Kenshin6321]

Everyone in this case except the baby (and MAYBE Katie, but that's a stretch) were disgusting people. How Alyssa is so braindead that she couldn't put two and two together is beyond me. And the fact that she didn't even bother to think that allowing Katie to be around the man that got her pregnant at the same age, unsupervised, shows she's the queen of everything stupid. Steven was just a sick man from start to finish. People like that don't deserve second and third chances. Who knows what he said to Katie to get her to sleep with him, but considering how her step parents practically supported the idea of her marrying her biological father proves she wasn't raised with any type of emotional or intellectual care. I feel like Katie wasn't given the opportunity to live a normal life, which could have leaned into how she fell for her father. Teenagers don't think things through, but when she got older and realized the error of her ways, that same father took her life because he couldn't have it. What an absolute scumbag. Even the courts were a let down, to not think "oh hey, maybe we should restrict visitation rights for the father since it's clear the baby will be with the mother." Failure on everyone involved. So many people had the chance to prevent this tragedy, and they just didn't for God knows why.

[@teenyverse7707]

Baby is the only innocent in IMO....

[@farzanabland6701]

Katie is not innocent. She was old enough to know better. She's a sicko

[@kowalskivideos6476]

The baby and the other two sisters are the only ones that I feel bad for. Everyone else really set a poor example including the foster parents who showed up to the wedding : (

[@HKim0072]

@@farzanabland6701 Dude - is doing opioids / heroin worst than what she did? Both are illegal. I'd argue drugs have a greater societal damage. Incest greater individual damage.

[@teresamoreno6650]

What the hell am I listening too ? I’m either dumb, naive , ignorant , stupid but, I’ve never heard of grooming fathers marrying there daughters having babies ? Omg 😳! This is a nightmare , disgusting 🤮! Who are these degenerates? Father and daughter kissing ? This is insane ? Wtf ? 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@itsomethingreat]

Killing babies, children or animals is simply unacceptable!

[@gabbi2739]

It really all boils down to don’t be a pushover and leave. Had Katie’s mother taken her far far away, and done the right thing from the very beginning, none of this would have happened. I blame her more than anyone to be honest. I hope she feels guilt and pain for the rest of her life for all three of the lives lost. The adoptive parents are mind blowing too. I really don’t care how old she is. She’s your child. Protect her. They should have never enabled any of this. If it were me I’d have gone to jail for locking her in the house before I even entertained her moving in with them.

[@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165]

He was threatening to murder her if she left...so yeah its not that easy but it's always easy to blame a woman for a mans disgusting nature.

[@serendipia7177]

victim blaming is helping criminals to diminish their responsibility, katies mother is guilty of being a bad mother ok, but not ofthe murderer, by blaming her you take off killers responsibility

[@serendipia7177]

darling I have suffer domestic violence, and when the man treats you with killing you if you leave, and authorithies are not helpful, if you leave you die, there is no other way is to stay or die

[@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165]

@@serendipia7177 ^this

[@mariaarodriguez7091]

And it all started with the mom. As a teen, they allowed her to date a 20 year old man. They should've called the cops on him.

[@gypsynikki]

Steven’s mother enabled his destructive behavior and to some extent contributed to the baby’s death. May the stepdad and baby Bennett rest in peace 🕊️💐

[@DontPretendtoCare]

Imagine adopting a little bastard and then going to her incest wedding 🤣🤣🤣

[@swallowedinthesea11]

The Lannisters wouldn't even take it this far!

[@TooHooWrong]

Or the Targaryens…

[@allenm7804]

Yall made me spit my drink out this comment is gold

[@jessicaellina3878]

Dear Lord..this case is so evil and insane on so many levels. Katie,s adoptive parents seemed like great people but encouraging this liason and going to the wedding??? I would have spent the day in the toilets vomitting. So heartsick for Katie and her dad, but that poor little mite..what was his crime?? Alyssa should have left that demon when she had to give Katie up because he was an abusive pos and would never change.

[@jillianmaloney3798]

In the first photo with them I thought their smiles looked sad so I thought maybe they went reluctantly and more to check up on it, but I just dk they could just be terrible too.

[@madsdee7803]

Her adoptive parents had an ADULT daughter who made her own choice. They were showing her she had support if she needed to get out, like real family do. I think they're the only real family she had. It's a shame they didn't hide away with the baby from him.

[@cshaffer8258]

What in the hell is going on with our children and families? This story is beyond disgusting! It’s pure evil!!! I can’t believe his mother and her adopted parents witnesses their wedding!!! Demented

[@HKim0072]

Dude - it’s just statistics. We have 335 million people in the US. Always going to have outlier cases.

[@moominmay]

@@HKim0072exactly that’s what makes the case extra horrifying that thankfully theses are such rare events. It’s hardly typical of current familial society lol

[@madsdee7803]

Her adoptive parents had an ADULT daughter who made her own choice. They were showing her she had support if she needed to get out, like real family do. I think they're the only real family she had. It's a shame they didn't hide away with the baby from him.

[@serendipia7177]

yes i am sick of reading comments even saying adoptive parents are guilt, for god sake, Katie was an adult, they did everything they could but she as an adult, authorities were not able to do more, the only guilty here is the killer @@madsdee7803

[@syedatasneemtowhid8149]

I wish I never saw this episode, I will need to resume anti-anxiety meds

[@martinasikk6162]

I agree.

[@Inflateagirllll]

Jesus I remember when this story originally came out regarding the incest. I didn’t know the father ended up killing until now. Incredibly disturbing.

[@willystiles1665]

WOW THAT WAS THE ABSOLUTE MOST INSANE STORY IVE EVER HEARD IM SPEECHLESS

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

What a tragic story from start to finish. Imagine being happy to meet your biological parents and suddenly everything changes so quickly to getting married and having a baby with your biological father. He must have been so manipulative and/or abusive for Katie to think it was a normal thing. The ending to this story was predictable as well. I hope Steven is right where he belongs, and Katie and Bennett are together and at peace. RIP to her adoptive "real" father as well. What a heartbreaking case.

[@MarioGoatse]

She willingly and voluntarily started a relationship with him. Why do so many women infantilise other women and remove all of their agency? One minute you’re saying women are strong independent beings, and the next minute they’re incapable of making any decisions. She was not being abused by Steven when she moved in. There was no abuse at all at that stage. She chose to do it.

[@allylondon9579]

Oh please!! She knew what she was doing. Let's stop taking people agency by making them all victim of "manipuation" 😒😒

[@allylondon9579]

​@@MarioGoatse👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@ChidiyaSethi]

I am sick of stories with adopted parents paying the price for trying to be good people 😔😔😞😞😒😒

[@ItCantRainForever2]

How do you know she wasn't running from abuse over there? You never know what was going on behind closed doors.

[@alexandermartinez129]

@@ItCantRainForever2are you serious? I guess that’s a possibility but cmon

[@remistaom]

I honestly just feel for the baby and the adoptive father. All the other people in this story are just sick!

[@matthewjoyner1595]

I remember this story. I live near Knightdale and I work there currently. Such a tragic and bizarre story.

[@3517p]

I just don't understand the smiling faces in the pic from the wedding. Should never of happened .

[@herzchen666]

This case was frustrating and upsetting. I also wish I could know what Katie was thinking. And I don't want to blame her adoptive parents. "Thanks" for your take on it...

[@chantalchristina6996]

Just one big problem here from the start, its the mom. She is insane

[@brunolima7402]

5:31 she believed he could change, after doing what he did to his own daughter and killing/beating animals... seriously? How dumb can someone be?

[@justinlynch3]

Man imagine being the defence lawyer that has to fight in count in defence of a man that slept with his own daughter. I'd despise every moment of having to defend that guy.

[@SHEEPLESUCK]

Any moral petson would refuse, and " just doing my job" is no excuse. Lawyers make me sick.

[@farishageorge6464]

Her adoptive parents is nasty,her grandma is nasty. Well and the Demon who killed himself takes the cake! Most nasty disturbing case ever!

[@Mikki-Pie]

Yuck 🤢 🤮

[@madsdee7803]

Her adoptive parents had an ADULT daughter who made her own choice. They were showing her she had support if she needed to get out, like real family do. I think they're the only real family she had. It's a shame they didn't hide away with the baby from him.

[@TS-1267]

20:50 ... 10 a Penny These Days Sadly... 😢😢😢

[@MenwithPurpose2012]

I normally have something to say but this one left me speechless. I hate to be in Steven's shoes on the day that he stood before the Lord. Unbelievable

[@flej01]

What a horrid person, this is a sickening case. R.I.P Katie, Bennet and Tony.

[@randallsavage13]

I can’t believe I’m really hearing this craziness

[@Jlittles2]

Out of all the true crime documentary channels, Beyond Evil has the best videos. And the narrator's voice is by far the best lol.

[@ItCantRainForever2]

I agree. He's straight to the point. Definitely well put together and I love his voice. Perfect story teller.

[@Kristine_202]

Oh...I know this story! This has to be, by far, the most f*cked up case I've ever heard. This one takes the prize. I can't believe it's real.

[@CoExist64]

It is vile no doubt, but oh boy could I give you some more!

[@ItCantRainForever2]

I agree very twisted and evil

[@HKim0072]

Don’t think you have to censor swear words on a multiple murder / incest video.

[@Kristine_202]

@@HKim0072 They have to censor them in the video. There are a lot of words that they can't say. (I know, the comments are different.)

[@HKim0072]

@@Kristine_202 lol, I meant your censored "f*cked".

[@x77punk77x]

I don’t know if anybody remembers V.C. Andrews (my sister binge-read them briefly before graduating to fantasy/sci-fi) but this story full of depravity and enablers is like a 21st C. real-life version of that hideous fictitious garbage…. So many levels of disgusting that i need to take a shower

[@SHEEPLESUCK]

Flowers in the attic?

[@noturcinderella]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! She let some guy lock her baby in a freaking COOLER?! And "eventually" would go back and let her out? I wouldnt consider any of these people to be human.

[@darthmillennial2671]

How can the adopted parents be fine with the daughter they raised just marrying her father and having children with him? What's the rationale there?

[@HKim0072]

It's the extreme case of my parents letting me smoke after 18, but I had to do it outside on the porch. She's pregnant. I guess they don't believe in abortion or its a bit late term. She's over 18. It was either report her to the police for incest or begrudgingly support her. What's your solution? Send your daughter to jail?

[@darthmillennial2671]

@@HKim0072 yea they should have called the police. She may or my not have gotten a jail time but at least she'd be away from her sick twisted biological dad. Plus like you said she was 18 and chose to participate as well, maybe some jail time would have shocked her back to reality.

[@Textra1]

She clearly inherited her father's psycho gene.

[@rymorrissey9143]

19:20 I have never been happy about the act of unaliving oneself but in his case, as I stated before, I’m very happy that he chose his spot in hell and I hope nobody went to his funeral and his death was as painful as possible on anyone who believed he was a “good man” or even a man for that matter.

[@mindy1230]

I'm sure he had a "story" to groom Katie, to be seen as a victim. Something like "I didn't want to give you up." As if it was all his wife's fault. There's so many women in Steven's life that enabled him...his Mother raising his baby because he couldn't hold a job etc.

[@RussellAllen-wf1im]

One of the most disturbing stories I’ve ever heard, seeing the adoptive parents and his mother in the wedding pictures literally blew my mind

[@neoma2994]

This mother is messed up too, did y’all notice she said I’d probably go back there and scoop her up 🤦‍♀️ PROBABLY

[@mikaelafox6106]

Some people shouldn’t reproduce. That lady was one of then.

[@eraldadevole]

7 min in and can’t watch further, cannot deal with kids living in such realities.. my heart just feels like breaking

[@greglane501]

The journal entry from the kid was unreal... that's like some shit out of a movie.

[@lindslori]

Disgusting. The story just got worse and worse. And he took lives like a damn coward. Too bad alyssa didnt leave him so he would unalive himself he would have done the world a favor

[@madsdee7803]

The threats to unalive himself are classic gaslighting of a narcissist.

[@Tainted_Julz_Radio]

I’ve heard this story told many times and never any less shocking

[@pla5730]

😮😮 I have NO words... Other than sick 🤢🤢🤢 sick sick monsters.. and the grandparents that clearly condoned the wedding are sick too!

[@AJ12716]

Well that blew my mind. Sick isn't the word!!! That poor little baby 😢😢 just sickening and disturbing.