Posted on 01/30/2015 8:31:19 AM PST by Gamecock
The parents of a Utah family found dead in a locked bedroom at their home last year often discussed religiously-held notions of the apocalypse and orchestrated a multi-drug familicide using methadone and over-the-counter cold medication, police said on Tuesday.
The bodies of Benjamin and Kristi Strack and three of their children aged 11 to 14 were discovered by the Stracks' lone surviving child and his grandmother on Sept. 27 in Springville, about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City.
"It was a fairly common theme for the parents to talk about, the apocalypse, the end of days, final judgment," said Springville Police Department detective Greg Turnbow, the lead officer on the case.
"Their surviving son, when he was interviewed, indicated that his mother had made comments that if things got bad enough she would much rather take herself and her family out in a comfortable way, rather than a painful way."
The information was released at a press conference on Tuesday that covered information from a medical examiner and broader information about the case, Turnbow said.
The parents deaths were ruled suicides. The children ages 11 and 12 were ruled homicides, and the 14-year-old son had a note in which he was aware of his "possible impending doom," Turnbow said.
The father had heroin in his body and the others had methadone and over-the-counter medication, Turnbow said, citing coroner's findings. There was no sign of a struggle.
Among the items recovered from the home by investigators, according to the warrants cited by the Deseret News, were empty bottles of liquid methadone, as well as 10 opened and empty packets of nighttime cold and flu medication.
I intend to meet the apocalypse kicking and screaming.
I wonder why the parents FEARED the apocalypse...
:)
Mrs. Goebbels, pick up the courtesy phone.
Horrible.
Because they were crazy.
And shooting.
Few movie scenes had made me as physically ill as those scenes in "Downfall". (Yes there's more to that movie than the Hitler rant)
If it REALLY affected me, the heart attack will do the job without my lifting a finger and I can face God ..
No, REALLY dad ... I was mindin' my own business an' this guy came up and scared the ,,, I'm sorry ... wits out'a me an' .... well .... here I am ...
I won’t win that one but I’m not going down without a fight.
If you are going to die anyways - go down fighting!
And PS - you could be wrong too.
Y2K anyone?
It’s a great movie - Bruno is wonderful. Of course, it’s now almost satire from all the Hitler rants.
What I want to know is where they acquired heroin & methadone. While I realize these can be gotten, you wouldn’t think that these people would venture to where that is possible. Something doesn’t quite pass the smell test here, like maybe one of the parents had a drug problem?
Armageddon is a big brawl, not a die in.
THE APOCALYPSE WON'T BE ALL THAT BAD . . . says famed theologian
They were so religious that their sacrament, instead of bread and wine, was heroin and methodone.
I thought that, too. I would have no idea where to get either one.
I was counseling a patient years ago, and she said it's hard to stay off drugs since it is sold on the street. I asked her, “Which street because I've never seen it on any street where I have been.” Her answer was, “Just any street.”
Years ago I read you would die if you ate a whole cup of salt, but you would throw up before that happened, so salt won't work.
The parents of this article knew what it took to kill them and they had the ingredients. They learned that somewhere - where is that “somewhere”. The remaining son likely knows.
Bingo!
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