[SLB]

I was raised in Wheatland and lived less than 1/2 mile from where this happened. There have now been two murders in this small Wyoming town in the past two weeks and 5 are dead.

[SLB]

FYI

[M Kehoe]

There have now been two murders in this small Wyoming town in the past two weeks and 5 are dead.

A feud?

5.56mm

[Jeff Head]

Two seperate murder incidents? Related? Domestic/family incidents?

Very sad and tragic...particularly in a small town where such things are very rare.

Prayers up for the families.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The FBI spends a fortune trying to develop a profile of serial killers, but nobody spends much time on a family member who butchers the rest of their family, which is much more frequent.

And no, I’m not suggesting a similar approach to serial killers and unhappy family members. Instead, it would help enormously if there was a non-government organization that acted like a suicide prevention hotline.

It would not be easy to set up such a system like this, as such people as family killers are often very embarrassed about the whole situation, and cannot imagine any reasonable way to change things. That is, it would be a lot harder for them to make a phone call than even for someone contemplating suicide.

And this is where profiling could be very useful. Really, to find out what it is about family killers that would encourage them to make a phone call before pulling the trigger.

[colorado tanker]

Wow. I think of Wheatland as a quiet little town.

[microgood]

I was raised in Wheatland and lived less than 1/2 mile from where this happened. There have now been two murders in this small Wyoming town in the past two weeks and 5 are dead.

Sad to hear this. Wheatland is a nice town. Do they still have that Elk Refuge in that canyon that connects over to Laramie? I used to drive through there sometimes when going to college (raised in Casper).

[FreedomPoster]

Bad 24 hours for family annihilation killings, what with the Grand RapidS event yesterday evening. I listened to the internet police scanner someone linked in here for the last 1-1/2 hours before the perp offed himself. It was pretty wild. You could hear the officers in the hallway speaking in hushed tones over the radio to the incident commander, while the perp was holed up in the bedroom with a hostage (who made it out).