A member of “the most incestuous family in the US” has died. The price of a book with his signature is increasing

Larry’s death was reported by documentary filmmaker Mark Laita, who popularized the family. Larry Whittaker died last week. I think he had a heart attack, Laita said on his Soft White Underbelly YouTube channel.

He focuses on people who are quite invisible in society, such as prostitutes, the homeless, drug addicts, and people with disabilities and other health problems.

Larry always treated me great. He was always very nice, he said.

After the news about Larry’s death became public, the price of a book signed by a member of the family, which is sold online on eBay, has risen sharply. On Wednesday, the 20th, its price was 150 dollars. It is now at $3,150.

There are only 24 of these books in the world. The sale on eBay is thirty-eight, reported the Daily Star portal.

Neighbor kills family with shotgun

Laita first came across the family in their village of Odd in West Virginia in 2004. He later went on to film them in 2020. According to him, the locals are very protective of the families. Don’t be sorry for people who try to make fun of the family, he said. One of the neighbors shot him with a shotgun, but he was unable to calm him down.

It was a wild one. These people walked around us, their eyes in different directions, and waved at us, he described meeting a specific group. Her sunnies spent a lot of time on the porch. Some of them communicated only with the help of skek. But they understood what they were saying, and when they wanted to disagree with what they heard, they began to cry.

The incest connection started with the Whittakers in the nineteenth century, with John and Henry, who were born in 1882 and were twins. John married his cousin, with whom he had nine children, including a daughter named Gracie Irene. She married the son of Henry and his mistress Sarah, and then her cousin, John. Together they had fifteen children, including the late Larry.

Due to incestuous relationships, many families have many health problems. Grace and John’s eldest daughter Aileen died of a heart attack, their eldest son Emery died of pneumonia. The head of the family is Betty, born in 1952, who promised her mother that she would never marry so that she could take care of her siblings.

Incest sexual intercourse is legal in two American states, New Jersey (from the age of eighteen) and Rhode Island (from the age of 16). Other cities prohibit it, but allow exceptions, such as the wedding of a cousin and a cousin. It is allowed in half of the US states. In West Virginia, such a marriage is not allowed.