37: "The Killer Speaks - Levi King"

Shear Crime Podcast

This week on Shear Crime, Ame and Kenzie share the wildly unknown case of ice cold Levi King. At the age of 23, this rage filled young man breaks into his abusive father's gun cabinet and takes off on a 24-hour rampage armed with an AK47, a 9MM handgun, and a hunting rifle. With a history of arson and animal cruelty, this was hardly the person you'd want lurking in your home when you didn't know it. Claiming the lives of two people down the road from his childhood home in Pineville, Missouri would quickly reveal something to Levi: utter peace and stillness of the anger that was constantly building inside of him. But that feeling wouldn't last forever. After driving all day and night, he found a remote farmhouse in Palma, Texas and murdered the family inside while they slept in their beds. Only this time, his emotional relief was not happening like it had the first time he'd taken a life. With no other options, he fled to Mexico. But a mix up in directions would land him in the custody of the American criminal justice system and Levi would soon face a victim he'd unknowingly left alive in front of a jury of his peers.