A Murderous Halloween: The Liske Family Massacre

When Halloween becomes the perfect time for the killer to hide among the innocent and slowly slip away

The Mystique
6 min readNov 18, 2021
The Liske Family | Photo Credits: Sites at Penn States

Halloween has always been the perfect day to terrify and be terrified. Many people take it for what it is. An opportunity to be someone else. A chance to let the darkest part of your imagination come out and play. Unfortunately, many people have taken this in the most literal sense of the expression. Some might use this opportunity to blend in with the crowd of avid Halloween celebrators and seek out their victims for the fun of it, while some take this as a chance to unleash terror on people that had the misfortune of crossing their path. The situation for the Liske family was no different as they met their end in the most horrifying way possible on Halloween.

A Divided Family

The Liske House | Photo Credits: Sites at Penn States

The Liske family came into being when Susan and William Liske decided to get married in 2001, tying themselves together and their respective children. While Susan had two sons from her previous marriage named Devon and Derek, William had one called William ‘B.J’ Jr. Susan’s sons did have a…

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