445: 17-Year-Old Begs TikTok to Help Solve Her Parents Murder | Sarah Grace Patrick

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The post poll at your heartstrings.

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Kristen Brock's 17-year-old daughter has been taken into custody.

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One after another, appearing to show Georgia teen Sarah Grace Patrick crying. This is a really tight-knit place, and suffice it to say, this is really rocking it to its core.

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Investigators say Sarah Grace Patrick is the one who killed James and Kristen Brock.

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Hey, True Crime Besties, welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialously.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialously with me, your host, Annie Elise. Happy Thursday.

Now, I know that it is Thursday, and Thursday usually means headline highlights, where we talk through everything happening this week in True Crime. However, there is a case that I have been following for quite some time at this point, and I think many of you have as well.

And it's a very bizarre case. Basically, this young girl's parents were brutally murdered. She was distraught, obviously heartbroken, highly emotional, took to TikTok to grieve and to ask people for help in solving her parents' murders, and also was sliding into creators' DMs asking us to cover her case, to help figure out what happened. Her five-year-old younger sister is the one who, unfortunately, discovered the parents' bodies, and just horrific all the way around. Come to find out, she ended up being arrested and charged with murdering her parents herself, which was so bizarre because she literally was taking to social media in all of these viral clips, begging for help and seemingly wanting a lot of attention after this. And now she's about to go to trial to face the murder charges. There's been some weird things along the way, too, where some of her family has advocated for her, saying that she could never have done this, some saying that she did do this and that she's a psychopath and cold hearted. And anyway, like I said, I've been following this case for quite some time. I think I actually know I have actually done a deep dive on here before talking about the case, but now that it's about to go to trial, I wanted to catch you all up on it so that now right now, it's there's something in the water. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's from the Karen Reed case or the Lindsey Clancy case, but there's this whole new wave of people who are watching trials now. There always were some people who were fascinated and they'd watch Court TV, Law & Crime, they'd watch the trials happen in real time, but this is now, as far as I'm seeing it, way more people are invested in live trial coverage. So I thought, here's what I want to do. Since the trial is starting, I'm going to bring you back, take you through the whole case, everything that has happened since, all the weirdness, all the social media of it all, so that you are fully caught up in time for the trial. That way, you're not having to backdate any research, figure out how to keep up, what's going on. You'll have the full story. And trust me, it is a doozy of a story. I hate that word, doozy. But this case truly is so wild, just because of, again, not only the audacity of it all, but how she really wanted the public's attention and their sympathy, and how, like I said, she was reaching out to creators for them to cover the case. And still, a lot of the family divided on whether or not she really did this, what the motivation was. So we've got a lot to get into. We are gonna be deep diving today on Thursday instead of headline highlights. Don't worry, next Thursday, we will be right back to regularly scheduled programming with me and Amy Hiller giving you all the skinny of what's going on that week in True Crime. But for today, we are going to dive in to the case of Sarah Grace Patrick. So let's jump right in. Now, let's start at the beginning, okay? I feel like most of us grow up believing that our parents are people that we can always turn to, people we can trust, people who have our best interests at heart. And I know that's not for every situation, unfortunately, but I feel like hopefully for most people that is the case. The people who are supposed to keep us safe, right? Comfort us. Be there when everything else falls apart. So when a child kills a parent, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around it. And sometimes you hear that it's only one parent that they target because that parent either was too strict with them, wouldn't let them date, you know, made them clean their room, whatever the reason is. But when a child is accused of killing both parents, it is unfathomable. It is like evil to the core and hard to just understand what could be going through this child's mind, right? And that's when everybody really starts asking the same question.