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Kids alone for days, parents dead in locked room
Associated Press ^ | Jan. 5, 2008 | Unknown

Posted on 01/05/2009 3:58:19 PM PST by decimon

A couple who hadn't been seen since New Year's Eve have been found dead inside their locked bedroom with their crying 9-month-old daughter in an apparent murder-suicide. Three older children had been left out on their own.

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1 posted on 01/05/2009 3:58:19 PM PST by decimon
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It’s a shame if it was a murder-suicide but I could also see this happening from accidental causes, e.g. CO, a poisoned drink that was shared, etc., and if mom & dad keep the bedroom door locked, there you go. You’d think the older kids would react quicker than 3 days though.


2 posted on 01/05/2009 4:08:52 PM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: decimon

How sad ...and how tragic that the 8 year old knew about “passed out”


3 posted on 01/05/2009 4:09:28 PM PST by CindyDawg (m)
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To: NonValueAdded

Not if it wasn’t unusal for them.


4 posted on 01/05/2009 4:10:43 PM PST by CindyDawg (m)
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To: NonValueAdded

Both parents were shot and, apparently, by dad. At least he didn’t waste the kids.


5 posted on 01/05/2009 4:15:46 PM PST by decimon
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To: CindyDawg
How sad ...and how tragic that the 8 year old knew about “passed out”

Yeah, these kids didn't seem to think the situation unusual.

6 posted on 01/05/2009 4:16:56 PM PST by decimon
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To: NonValueAdded
There is some good news in this all too common crime report.

At least they spared the innocent; all of them.

I must give them credit for that.

7 posted on 01/05/2009 4:18:42 PM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: decimon
Both parents were shot and, apparently, by dad.

The man was only 21, which makes it unlikely that he's the father of any of the children besides the baby. Maybe that's why he didn't kill them ... no sense of "ownership."

8 posted on 01/05/2009 4:23:07 PM PST by Tax-chick (Buy Girl Scout cookies! Send them to the troops!)
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Smith said he went to the couple's apartment, smelled a foul odor and heard the couple's baby crying. He kicked down the locked bedroom door and found them dead in the same clothes they were wearing New Year's Eve.

I hope that Smith was thinking far enough a head that he kept the kids at his apartment when he went to investigate so that they did not have to see their parents that way.

9 posted on 01/05/2009 4:25:30 PM PST by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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Maybe that's why he didn't kill them ... no sense of "ownership."

Actually a step-dad is much more likely to kill the previous males children than his own.

10 posted on 01/05/2009 4:28:27 PM PST by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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The man was only 21, which makes it unlikely that he's the father of any of the children besides the baby.

Yes.

11 posted on 01/05/2009 4:29:46 PM PST by decimon
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To: NonValueAdded; All

But .. doesn’t CO affect the whole house .. not just a single room ..??

And .. to me such an act of murder/suicide in this manner just reeks of overwhelming selfishness.

You can only be thinking of yourself if you leave a 9 month old baby to fend for itself.


12 posted on 01/05/2009 4:32:48 PM PST by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: Tax-chick

That could be why the baby went to CPS...if the others went to their father’s family.


13 posted on 01/05/2009 4:40:28 PM PST by CindyDawg (m)
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To: Pontiac

A couple of murders or murder/suicides in this area in the last few years involved men killing their own children. I think it depends on the circumstances. The cases I’ve seen of men killing their girlfriends’ children by other men are usually just the kids, not the man killing himself too.


14 posted on 01/05/2009 4:42:22 PM PST by Tax-chick (Buy Girl Scout cookies! Send them to the troops!)
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To: CindyDawg

I think that’s right, based on the article.


15 posted on 01/05/2009 4:44:02 PM PST by Tax-chick (Buy Girl Scout cookies! Send them to the troops!)
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To: decimon

Well. it happened in Madras.. Okay. Ah! it’s a hundred miles form Portland. So it must be in Oregon! no, wait, maybe it’s in Maine or in Connecticut, or Indiana, or maybe Texas. Could it be Portland Arizona? or Portland Colorado? or Florida? Kansas, perhaps?


16 posted on 01/05/2009 4:50:04 PM PST by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: decimon

Terrible and tragic. The poor children!


17 posted on 01/05/2009 4:52:55 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: arthurus

I wondered, at first, about all the English-speaking people with normal-sounding names living in Madras, India.


18 posted on 01/05/2009 4:53:36 PM PST by Tax-chick (Buy Girl Scout cookies! Send them to the troops!)
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To: decimon

people who want to commit murder/suicide should start with the suicide and go on from there.


19 posted on 01/05/2009 4:58:40 PM PST by madamemayhem (don't kill me, I'm new here)
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To: apocalypto

At the risk of sounding heartless. I do not think they are altogether “poor children”. These parents are quite likely the type who would have raised some really screwed up kids. They probably are getting the biggest break of their life, not withstanding that they have to live with the way their parents died. But, I would offer up my prayers that a loving set of well-balanced people get the privilege of raising these children.


20 posted on 01/05/2009 5:08:53 PM PST by Integrityrocks
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