A Utah newspaper published a glowing obituary of a man who murdered his family before killing himself earlier this month. Michael Haight “made it a point to spend quality time with each and every one of his children,” the obituary in The Spectrum read. Haight, 42, killed his wife, five children, and mother-in-law on January …
Police in North Carolina are investigating the deaths of five people — two adults and three children — as a murder-suicide after they responded to calls about people screaming for help. The High Point Police Department said it was called to a subdivision on the northeast side of the city shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday …
A Utah husband shot to death his wife, her mother, and the couple’s five children this week before taking his own life. The bodies were found in the Enoch home on Wednesday, when police were sent to conduct a welfare check, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The city identified the dead as Michael Orwin Haight, 42; …
Eight people, including five children, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside a home in southeastern Utah on Wednesday. Enoch City police said they were sent to the address for a welfare check and found the bodies. Investigators also said they don’t “believe there is a threat to the public or that there are any …
A New Jersey college student who vanished from campus in October and was found dead six days later had taken her own life, prosecutors said on Wednesday. On October 20, a facilities employee found Misrach Ewunetie, 20, deceased behind some tennis courts at Princeton University. According to WPVI, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Ewunetie …
A North Carolina attorney was shot and killed in a murder-suicide this week inside his law office in Goldsboro. Patrick White, 42, pushed the shooter up against the wall in an attempt to get him to stop shooting, a colleague told WRAL. The gunman, a client of the Riddle & Brantley firm identified as Francisco …
A set of Pennsylvania triplets has been found safe after their father shot and killed their mother and later killed himself. Authorities said the 39-year-old mother was found dead in northwestern Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane neighborhood on Sunday night, WTXF reported. Hours later, they released an alert about the triplets, who were missing. The mother, …
Two people are dead after a murder suicide on a California highway on Saturday. The Fresno Bee reported that a woman called police earlier on Saturday to say that her 30-year-old boyfriend had threatened to kill her, the Fresno Bee reported. The two were in the process of separating, the paper said. California Highway Patrol …
A former University of California, Irvine student apparently threw his mother off a campus building before jumping to his own death in what investigators say is a murder-suicide. Irvine Police said they responded to assist campus police just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday. They found the bodies of Thao Thai Nguyen, 77, and her son, …
A 5-year-old girl in Florida is recovering from a gunshot wound after her parents died in a murder-suicide Tuesday night. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told reporters the shooting took place shortly after the mother arrived home from work, paid the babysitter, and walked her outside. “As [the babysitter] starts backing out, she sees an …
The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the mother and grandparents of a California teen he catfished shot himself with his service weapon after a chase with law enforcement 200 miles from the murder scene. Investigators’s say 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards “catfished” the 15-year-old daughter of Brooke Winek, 38, posing as a 17-year-old boy, as CrimeOnline …
A California elementary school principal jumped to his death from a parking deck at Disneyland on Saturday, according to reports. Newland Elementary School principal Christopher Christensen, 51, was found dead after someone reported a man falling from the amusement park’s Mickey & Friends parking structure. The Mercury News reported that Christensen was due in court …
