A 4-year-old Texas boy remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his head after his stepfather reportedly shot him and fatally shot his mother and grandmother before turning the gun on himself. KWTX reported that Shelly Splittgerber, 36, was granted a temporary protection order Wednesday against her estranged husband, Matthew Splittgerber, 37, citing stalking and harassment. In …
An Ohio man killed his elderly parents and stuffed their bodies in a car trunk before apparently hanging himself on the property, police said Tuesday. Doylestown police lieutenant Kevin Milburn said Randall Weekley Jr., 39, was found dead in a shed Monday afternoon after a woman asked police to check on her family. Milburn said they …
A recently-released autopsy report found that a Tennessee mother shot a total of 34 rounds into her four teenaged children before taking her own life in mid-October. Per WKRN, Kaileigh Lin, 17, was found dead in the bathroom and sustained 17 gunshot wounds; Lia Lin, 15, was found dead in her bed and had nine gunshot …
A former Florida college professor and his 3-year-old daughter were reportedly found dead in his home Monday afternoon in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the grisly discovery was made after Laurel Friedman called police requesting a welfare check for her daughter and her estranged husband, Ayhan Aytes, 48, …
A Kansas mother was reportedly working to get away from her abusive husband before he allegedly shot her dead and turned the gun on himself this past weekend. According to People, Kristin Gile, 33, and her father had gone to her former home Saturday to pick up some belongings when her husband Randy Gile II, 33, arrived …
A Florida deputy reportedly shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself at their Land O’ Lakes home early Monday. “Kirk has lost his mind Kristin,” Samantha Keithley, 33, text a friend late Sunday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “He’s literally losing it. He’s been harassing me for the last 6 hours …
Two teenagers were fatally shot by their own father before he took his own life in what police say is a devastating double-murder suicide in rural Indiana, the IndyStar reports. The children’s mother called police Friday morning after she was informed her kids weren’t at school and no one answered the door at her ex-husband’s …
Reports of blood coming from the ceiling led police in Florida to the bodies of an elderly couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide. Per the Sun-Sentinel, a woman called police Sunday afternoon after noticing blood coming from the ceiling of her Margate apartment. When police knocked on the door and received no response, firefighters removed …
Illinois police say a single father shot his twin children to death before turning the gun on himself Monday morning. According to Fox 32, Chicago police were called to a residence in the 6200 block of North Richmond Street at approximately 11 a.m., where they found a 45-year-old old man dead in the hallway of the …
The slain girl’s relatives alleged the courts were fully aware of her father’s violent tendencies — and the girl herself said she was afraid of him
Three people were found dead in an Alabama home Saturday morning in what investigators believe is a double murder-suicide, the Decatur Daily reports. All three of the deceased are members of the same family. Austin Passwater said the deaths occurred at a residence several doors down from him. “That’s the most shocking thing I’ve heard in …
Police in Delaware are investigating after a family of five was found dead inside their Prices Corner home in an apparent murder-suicide. WPVI reports that Matthew Edwards, 42, wife Julie Burton Edwards, 41, and their children, Jacob, 6, Brinley, 4, and Paxton, 3, were found shot to death Monday night on the home’s second floor. Police …
