KJ Biermann: Sex Crimes, Deeply Disturbing Videos and a Secret Trip

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Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann's normal turned upside down. This isn't his first time with sexual battery.

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Do you want him to be out on phones right now? What would you say to the judge about it?

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15-year-old son, Kroy Jr., arrested for sexual battery. And while she might be used to having the camera zoomed in on her private affairs, I will tell you right now, nothing could have prepared her for something like this.

Annie Elise (0:24)

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.

All right, guys, I have no choice, okay? I swear, normally, we are not ever at a crossroads between pop culture and true crime. There very rarely is an intersection. However, this case, I couldn't not talk about. I talked about it briefly in Headline Highlights last week on Thursday.

I knew I needed to do the deep dive because so much more information has come out, and it's the case of KJ Biermann.

I don't even know where to begin with this. I have been researching this for the last several days, going through court documents, talking with people, going through old archival, and this has got to be one of the more disturbing cases that I have covered in a very long time, especially not only because of the existing current allegations and what's going on and why this whole situation was brought to the forefront, but because of all the background history, the pattern, the past allegations, the outcries, there's so much that goes into this. So it is one of those episodes where there is going to be a cross-pollination between people who either love pop culture or hate it, and the traditional true crime, because this absolutely is a true crime case and is more appalling than a lot of the true crime cases that we talk about. It's just, it's unbelievable. Now, for those of you who are not in the pop culture universe, who don't watch Bravo or reality TV or Housewives or any of that, I'm going to give you the backstory because you may not have any sort of idea at all who KJ Biermann is. And there is a lot of backstory that I believe is very important context to know while getting into this case. And especially when we start going into the patterns, the dynamics, the relationships and all of that. So KJ Biermann is a 15 year old boy who is best known as being the son of Kim Zolciak. Kim Zolciak is best known for being a housewife on Bravo. She was on Real Housewives of Atlanta for, gosh, nearly a decade. She also was married to former NFL player Kroy Biermann. And even if you don't watch Housewives, I would imagine you've seen clips of her on social media over the years, whether it's on the couch at one of the Housewives reunions where NeNe is yelling at her, close your legs to married men. Or when they say like, buy wig, because she wears wigs. Or there's one where she's like drinking Pinot Grigio in her car, playing a, I guess it was a CD at the time or maybe an iPod, I don't know, of a song that she was singing on, don't be tardy for the party, whoa, don't be tardy for the party. She's had like a lot of memorable moments over the last two decades really. And she got her start by being on Housewives of Atlanta. So she was one of the original cast mates too. And I believe she started in 2008 And this show, it's a reality show, you know, I'm sure you know Real Housewives, you've heard of it. It's on Bravo. And she was on the show for five seasons. During those five seasons, she pursued a music career. She had that song I just sang to you, Tardy for the Party in 2009, which became like a mega viral hit. Not because I think people were ever listening to it in a serious way, but more kind of like Luanne from Housewives of New York. She has the like, what is it? Chic, c'est la vie, c'est bon, or I don't even, whatever.

I don't want to lose you if you're not a Housewife fan. But my point is that she was getting all this notoriety, all of this fame, all of this attention in 2008-2009 while she was on this hit show. And then in May 2010, Kim met Kroy. He was playing for the Atlanta Falcons at the time. And the two of them met at a charity event called Dancing with Atlanta Stars. Their first meeting was actually featured on season three of the Housewives of Atlanta 2 And very quickly, they hit it off. They started dating right away. It was like at first this romance that I think all of us as viewers were rooting for, it seemed like they were in love, they couldn't keep their hands off each other, they wanted to have so many kids with one another. And it seemed like this all American perfect love story.