On November 29, 1998, high school senior Seth Privacky went on a killing spree, shocking his Michigan town, and destroying multiple families in the process. Mixed and mastered by Resonate Recordings. Podcasting is for everyone; visit https://resonaterecordings.com today to have your first episode produced for free!
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-nightmare-in-muskegon/
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http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2008/11/ten_years_after_he_killed.html
https://www.spreaker.com/show/murderousminors
https://player.fm/series/murderous-minors-killer-kids-2359628/ep-1-bang-bangsgiving-dinner
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This is Murderous Minors: Killer Kids bringing you the frightening and truly insane tales of children with the thirst to kill. Kindergarten through twelfth grade murderers. True stories thoroughly researched. Join us weekly for new tales of parents' worst nightmares on Murderous Minors: Killer Kids.
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Episode number one: Bang-Bangsgiving Dinner.
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Stephen & Linda Privacky were a well-respected couple who lived with their two teenage sons in Muskeegan, Michigan. Their plans on Sunday, November 29th, 1998 were pretty simple: have over the boys' grandfather plus their older son's girlfriend to have a belated Thanksgiving dinner together a few days after the holiday.
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Stephen Privacky was a well-liked elementary school teacher; his wife, Linda, worked the front office for a doctor in town. Their nineteen-year-old son Jed and his nineteen-year-old girlfriend Amber Boss were both studying in college to become teachers.
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Their younger son, Seth Privacky, was a high school senior at Reeths-Puffer High School in Muskeegan, Michigan. By his own admission, Seth had been having a pretty hard previous twelve months. He'd been arrested two times for shoplifting, once for beer and once for a CD. He was prescribed Wellbutrin, required to take counseling, and sentenced to 10 days in a juvenile facility.
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On the day of the crime, Sunday, November 29th, Seth states that his father told him that he didn't love him anymore and that he wanted him to move out of the family home. His mother, Linda, and his older brother Jed did nothing to intervene on his behalf. And so when his dad leaves to pick up their grandfather and his mom goes upstairs to take a shower, Seth also goes upstairs, but he comes downstairs with a loaded 22 Ruger pistol belonging to his father. He goes into the adjacent room where Jed is watching TV and waiting for his girlfriend Amber to arrive for Thanksgiving Dinner and Seth then shoots his brother, Jed, once in the head. He moves his body downstairs to the basement to conceal it and goes to the garage to wait for his father and grandfather to return.
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Once they do, he shoots his dad once and his grandfather twice. He then goes upstairs and shoots his mother Linda as she exits the shower. Once downstairs again, he starts moving the bodies of his dad and grandpa from the garage into the house and this is where Amber enters and is startled by what she sees. He then shoots Amber in the head as well.
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Unbelievably, his next move is to call up a high school buddy, 18-year-old Steven Clayton Wallace, also a senior at Reeths-Puffer High School in Muskeegan, Michigan. He tells him what went down and asks him to come over and help and, also unbelievably, Steven Wallace agrees. Steven Wallace goes to the Privacky crime scene and proceeds to help his friend Seth cover up the murders of four of his family members and his brother's girlfriend. He wraps bodies and they make plans to bury them later, but first Steven does need to go to a function at his church. So he leaves, he takes with him the murder weapon and disposes of it in a nearby lake.
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Seth proceeds to mop up blood at the crime scene for the next few hours, takes the bullet casings to a public trash can and disposes of them, and purchases duct tape so they can now stage the crime scene as an attempted robbery.
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During Seth Privacky's police interview, he tells officers that his dad told him he didn't love him and that he wanted him to move out of the house. He killed his mom and his brother because they didn't intervene on his behalf. He killed his grandfather and his brother's girlfriend because he didn't know they were going to be there.
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Detectives reported that he had a very flat affect and that he seemed vacant behind his eyes, as if nobody was home. He showed no remorse, he didn't apologize to the victims, the victims' families or friends or anything of that nature. And even ten years later, when he wrote a testimonial letter claiming to show his path to Christianity, he really did everything he could to place his emphasis of blame on his victims.
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Now to shed some light into how it was reported that his parents felt about him, several of their friends did have a few insights into the relationship that he had with his parents. For instance, his mother Linda had told friends that she felt Seth was completely out of control and that he had taken to destroying property within the family home. His father Stephen went so far as to say that he felt his son Seth had no conscience.
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So in the summer of 1999, Seth Privacky was found guilty of five counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
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Steven Wallace's charges were downgraded to five counts of accessory to murder, of which he was acquitted. Now it turns out that on the night of the Privacky family murders, Steven Wallace did go to church, he did dispose of the murder weapon, and evidently he also had time during that night, before returning to the crime scene to help his friend dispose of those bodies and evidence, to joyride with some other teens and bust mailboxes throughout the neighborhood.
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His next criminal citation would be misdemeanor vandalism wherein he would actually enter the criminal justice system. Over the next couple years, he had multiple arrests for things such as vandalism and domestic violence and ultimately trafficking stolen property. In 2007, he violated probation on that stolen property charge and was sentenced to up to 7.5 years in prison, and he was released on May 29th, 2014.
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Seth Privacky claimed that, shortly after entering the justice system, he converted to Christianity. Even though he claimed to now be a Christian, he still did manage to accrue over 29 misconducts on his prison record for offenses including possession of a weapon, assault, gambling, fighting, substance abuse, possession of a tattoo gun. By his own accounts, he went so far as to extort money from other prisoners as well as deal drugs while behind bars.
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By 2010, Seth Privacky was 30 years old and being housed at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Michigan. On July 15th, 2010, around 9:15 AM, three inmates, including Seth Privacky, attempted to hijack a work truck that was on prison grounds performing some work around the facility. They overpowered the driver, but the truck eventually became hung up on something after crashing through a double fence, and Seth attempted to flee on foot. He was shot dead by a perimeter prison guard.
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About twelve years after massacring his mother, father, grandfather, brother and his brother's girlfriend as they sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, Seth Privacky was dead.
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In a sad, but unrelated, twist in the life of Steven Wallace, the co-conspirator, in 2009, the body of his two children's mother, Andrea Mura, was found frozen along a road in Michigan. She'd evidently walked away from a work detail after being incarcerated for retail fraud and it was later found during autopsy that she had died of lethal heroin overdose.
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I couldn't find any word on whether or not Steven Wallace received custody of the two children that they shared together.
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The previous domestic violence that Steven Wallace had been convicted of were all perpetrated against Andrea Mura.
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Let's meet back here next week for another heartbreaking story of Murderous Minors: Killer Kids.
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