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Apr 3, 2023 · Photographer Mark Laita has gone viral after documenting the lives of the Whittakers, a heavily inbred West Virginia family that only communicates in grunts and barks at passersby.
Dec 12, 2022 · The Whitaker family’s secrecy makes creating a family tree nearly impossible. Researchers rely on self-reporting inbreeding to generate family trees as ethical barriers hinder the gathering of family data without permission.
Larry Whittaker, a member of America's most inbred family, has died aged 67 following a suspected heart attack, according to photographer and friend of the family Mark Laita.
The Whittakers - known as 'America's most inbred family' - can trace their roots back to twin brothers who married their own cousins and had children with them, leading to a number of genetic...
Jul 4, 2020 · Inbred Family-The Whittakers. Soft White Underbelly update interview and portrait of the Whittaker family of Odd, West Virginia. Here's a link to a playlist of all Whittaker family...
Mar 10, 2024 · The Whittakers are an incredibly impoverished inbred family living in Odd, West Virginia whom Laita has documented in several videos. The family was the benefactor of a fundraising campaign set up by the Soft White Underbelly YouTube channel which has recently come under fire.
The West Virginian family has a long and complicated history of inbreeding with early reports stating that the three siblings’ now-deceased mum and dad were brother and sister. The family later clarified that they were double first cousins — meaning that they share both sets of grandparents.
The Whittaker family from West Virginia has a complex history due to inbreeding, leading to severe genetic defects. Some family members even communicate through grunts and barks instead of...
Jan 17, 2023 · THE complicated lineage of a family dubbed the most inbred in America has been revealed after a filmmaker documented their lives. Mark Laita first stayed with the Whittaker family in 2004, but after reuniting with them in 2020, details about their lineage became clearer.
Nov 20, 2022 · The Whitakers, an allegedly inbred family who lives in a run-down shack in West Virginia, went viral after longtime friend and photographer Mark Laita posted videos of their strange life in 2020.
