"I just uh... killed my dad. What do I need to tell you?"
This is the question 17-year-old Anthony Templet asked a 911 operator in the early hours of June 3, 2019. He was calm throughout the phone call. He stated the facts. He admitted to shooting his own father. And then he waited outside their Baton Rouge, Louisiana home for the responding officers to arrest him.
His complex story is explored in Netflix's new three-part true crime documentary series, I Just Killed My Dad, from director Skye Borgman, the woman behind Girl In The Picture and Abducted In Plain Sight.
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"He just attacked me," Anthony continued on the 911 call. "Then, we got into a fistfight. Then, I ran into his room, closed the door, and got a gun. As I unlocked the door, he tried to {inaudible} and then I shot him."
Within minutes, Anthony was arrested. When his father Burt died three days later from his injuries, he was charged with second degree murder. The media began covering the case, telling the shocking story of a teenage son who killed his own dad in cold blood.
Then investigators received a phone call out of the blue. On the other end of the phone was a woman named Natasha. She said she was Anthony's half-sister, and he had been missing since 2008.
Anthony spent the first five years of his life living in Houston, Texas, with his mother Teresa Thompson, his father Burt and his half-sister Natasha.
According to Natasha, Burt was abusive towards Teresa throughout their relationship.