Besides murder, one of the biggest taboos in society is being involved in an incestuous relationship. From mothers and sons, fathers and daughter, to sisters and brothers, having a relationship with a family member can send you to a life behind bars. Though they face social taboos and risk being arrested, that didn't stop the people in this article from becoming a part of some of the most notorious incestuous relationships ever reported.
Shocking Cases Of Family Relationships And Incest
#1 Mackenzie And John Phillips
Mackenzie Phillips, the daughter of John Phillips, who was part of the singing group The Mama's & The Papa's, has been a spokesperson for consensual incest ever since it was revealed that the father and daughter were having a long standing affair. Apparently, the affair started while she was in her teens and before she began her role on TV's One Day At A Time. She revealed that they often talked about moving to Mexico where they could get married legally and have children. The relationship caused a lot of controversy, and her younger sister had several breakdowns over the anxiety. It also led to Mackenzie becoming a drug addict and alcoholic.
#2 The Colt Family
The Colt family made headlines in 2014 when they were found living in a commune and having incest with all the family members of both sexes. A brother and sister couple started the family and wanted to hide away so they moved into a communal block. The housing block eventually became the home to four generations of incest Colt family members.
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#3 The Colt Family
When police were finally tipped off they arrived at the housing block to find 40 family members living in one unit. The decide to arrest the matriarch of the family once they discovered that the children of the family were riddled with deformities nd lacked any basic living skills.
#4 Pearl Carter And Phil Bailey
This pair made headlines in 2004 when they decided to have a baby. However, the mother of the child was the father's grandmother. When Phil Bailey's mother passed away, he decided to reach out to his mother's mother, who had given her baby up for adoption. He then found Pearl Carter and the two hit it off well, starting a relationship. The brag about being intimate several times a week and say they are madly in love, though she is his grandmother and her child with him would be totally messed up. In 2010 they found a surrogate to carry the egg and become a surrogate mother.
#5 Ben Ford And Kim West
Kim West was thrilled when she received an unexpected letter from her son Ben, whom she had given up for adoption 27 years before. After exchanging letter and phone calls, they became Facebook friends. Their non-stop chatting turned from mother and son talk to sexually charged texting. Kim saw a doctor who told her she was going through genetic sexual attraction. This occurs when family members meet for the first time as adults. They met at a hotel and Ben left his wife of two years to start a relationship with his own 51-year-old mother.
#6 Barbra Daly Baekeland
Socialite Barbra Daly Baekeland was a very wealthy "it" girl even though she was hiding a secret. Because of the mental instability she suffered, her husband left her. Their son Anthony was left in his mother's care. When Anthony was just 16-years-old, Barbra found out he was having sex with men and attempted to cure him by hiring prostitutes to have sex with him. That didn't work, so she raped her son in a horrific scene that ended with Anthony stabbing his mother to death in a rage of fury.
#7 George And Alice Waas
After this couple won 5.3 million pounds in a British lottery, it was discovered that they were brother and sister. The couple, George and Alice Waas, said they were reunited in 1983 as long lost brother and sister. They had a test done to see if they were related but Alice's mother destroyed the results before Alice could see them and told her she never had a son and didn't know who George was.
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#8 George And Alice Waas
The two fell in love, believing they were in fact, not related. After 25 years together they had won the jackpot in the lottery and tabloids began to investigate their identities. Reporters were able to track down family records showing they were, indeed, brother and sister. The couple was shocked that reporters could find the information but even more shocked that their mother had told them she never had a son. George was the result of an affair their mother had and she gave him up for adoption.
#9 King Tut
Back in ancient Egypt, incest was encouraged within royal families to keep the bloodlines pure. Over the years after King Tuts tomb was discovered in 1922, there was a lot of speculation as to how he died. After over 2,000 scans of his remains, researchers have come up with an accurate depiction of the King and his death.
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#10 King Tut
King Tut is said to have had wide hips, narrow, thin lips, an overbite, and a clubbed foot due to the incest. He died from congenital side effects of the incest relationship between his parents. He also had incest with his own sister, who bore two stillborn children.
#11 Aimee Sword
After giving her son up for adoption 14 years prior, 36-year-old mother Aimee Sword stopped getting updates from her son's adoptive parents. She decided to look for him on social media and found him on Facebook, where they became close friends. She then begged his adoptive family to let the two spend some time together, and they agreed to let him stay with her in a hotel for a weekend.
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#12 Aimee Sword
When sword saw her son, something came over her and she no longer saw him as her son, but as a prospective lover. The pair had an incestuous relationship until his adoptive parents had her arrested for incest. In 2010, she was in prison facing up to 30 years for the relationship with her own son.
#13 John And Jenny Deaves
After John divorced his wife, he maintained a spotty relationship with their daughter, Jenny. But the two finally reconnected in 200o and soon they were telling people they were in love. Both left their spouses and moved in together and began an incestuous relationship. They eventually had two children but were both arrested on charges of incest. Afraid of getting prison time, the two separated but went on 60 Minutes in 2008 to tell their story.
#14 Virginia Woolf
She is one of the world's most celebrated authors, but Virginia Woolf had a very troubled childhood, starting with the early death of both parents. She was raped by her half-brother throughout her childhood. She began suffering from the trauma and had suicidal tendencies and thoughts of drowning. At the age of 59, in 1941, she ended her life by drowning herself. Her suicide note blamed the incest she had been having with her half-brother that tormented her.
