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Thanksgiving 2016. Knoxville, Tennessee.

Joel and Lisa Guy had gathered their children for what was meant to be one final holiday celebration inside the family home before they retired and moved away. But their 28-year-old son, Joel Michael Guy Jr., had arrived with a horrifying plan.

Prosecutors said Joel Jr. knew his parents intended to stop financially supporting him. Rather than face life on his own, he decided to kill them, destroy their remains, collect their life-insurance money, and frame his father for the murders.

After the rest of the family left, Joel Jr. attacked his parents inside their home. He then dismembered their bodies and attempted to dissolve their remains with corrosive chemicals. When Lisa failed to report to work, a welfare check led officers into a scene so gruesome that investigators would describe the house as almost beyond comprehension.

But Joel Jr. had left behind something even more damning: a handwritten notebook containing a detailed, step-by-step plan for the murders, the destruction of the bodies, and the financial rewards he expected to collect afterward. Surveillance footage also captured him purchasing many of the supplies prosecutors said were used in the crime.

In 2020, Joel Michael Guy Jr. was convicted of murdering and dismembering both of his parents. He received consecutive life sentences, ensuring he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

How could a son turn a family Thanksgiving into the beginning of such calculated horror—and reduce the two people who supported him to nothing more than obstacles standing between him and their money?

This is the devastating story of Joel and Lisa Guy—and the son who planned their murders in chilling detail.

*This episode contains murders that are extremely graphic in nature. Listener discretion is advised.

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