48 Hours - New Limited Series from 48 Hours — Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

The Hargans were a typical suburban family until one day, devoted mother Pamela was gunned down in her own home and her youngest daughter, Helen, was found dead upstairs. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant unpacks the web of evidence behind the Hargan killings, revealing motives of sibling rivalry and a family fortune in this new 6-episode series.Get early, ad-free access to episodes of Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings by subscribing to 48 Hours Plus on Apple Podcasts or Wondery+ on the Wondery app. The series is widely available everywhere else you get your podcasts.Subscribe to 48 Hours+: https://apple.co/4aEgENoSubscribe to Wondery+: https://wondery.com/plus/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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to a remote base near Joshua Tree National Park. They have to alert the military. And when they do, the NCIS gets involved. From CBS Studios and CBS News, this is 48 Hours NCIS. Listen to 48 Hours NCIS ad-free starting October 29th on Amazon Music. From the outside looking in, we were blessed. My mom was amazing. The Hargan women seemed to have it all. They lived in McLean, Virginia, an affluent town just outside of Washington, D.C.

It's a million-dollar home. But as detectives would soon learn, there was a lot going on inside the Hargan household. So in that mudroom, we discover Pamela Hansen Hargan. She is laying on the floor of the mudroom. 63-year-old Pamela Hargan had just retired. Now she had been gunned down in her own home. And upstairs, Pamela's youngest daughter, Helen Hargan, lay dead with a rifle leaning against her body. Patrol, when they

arrived, assumed or thought that there might have been a murder-suicide. Police say Helen Hargan shot her mom, Pamela Hargan, before turning the gun on herself. But for the detectives on the scene, certain clues weren't adding up. We have manipulated crime scene in multiple places. So what was really going on inside the Hargan home? A lot of these cases are like huge jigsaw puzzles that you can never fully put together. A key piece of this puzzle would be a series of 911 calls made by Helen's boyfriend from more than a thousand miles away. I'm thinking my girlfriend's life is in danger. Soon, another family member would be suspected. You have got to unload this.

Blame me. That's fine. There's nothing. Just blame me. It's fine. There's nothing. Just blame me. In my 25 years reporting stories like this, the Hargan case is one of the few that sounds like something made up by a Hollywood screenwriter. A story of betrayal you would struggle to believe if it wasn't true. My sister was not my sister for many months. I'm Peter Van Sant from 48 Hours. This is Blood is Thicker, the Hargan family killings. This particular case, there were things about the scene itself that were concerning to us on day one.

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