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Courthouse Shooting, TV Episode on "Evil Kin"

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The story of the Matusiewicz family and the courthouse shooting in Delaware has been a Delmarva story.

But not anymore.

The story of the family is now an hour long episode on the true crime show called “Evil Kin”.

The 2013 courthouse shooting found the father Thomas Matusiewicz shooting and killing his former daughter-in-law and her friend after which he was also killed in an exchange of gun fire with police.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that the episode is called ”A Mother’s Fight” which tells the tale of his son’s ex-wife Christine Belford in a child custody battle that resulted in the shooting.

Eventually, Matusiewicz’s son David, daughter Amy Gonzalez and wife Lenore were also convicted of conspiracy and stalking charges and sentenced to life in prison in February.

Lenore died in a Texas prison months later.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.