Not only that, but the bodies were discovered on Palm Sunday. God does indeed work in mysterious ways.
It's as if God is saying to all of us, "Heads up, folks!!! This is pure, unvarnished EVIL we're dealing with here! I hate to be this obvious, with the Christmas Eve/Palm Sunday/Good Friday schtik, but some of you seem so blind to evil, it seems you need a ton of bricks to fall on you to get your attention! Evil exists! Believe it, and keep praying!!!"