Family massacre in VA:5 ppl,2 of 'em children,found shot to death inside house where they all lived,bodies scattered throughout house,handgun recovered,looks to be a quadruple murder-suicide
Joe1orbit
I am leaving on my monthly trip is just 20 MINUTES, and have THREE final
posts that I want to make. This means NO time for ANY significant commentary
from me. Sorry about that, folks.
WE have a NEWm breaking family massacre in Virginia. A family of FIVE has
been found massacred, inside their home, the five bodies scattered throughout
the house. A HANDGUN was recovered as well, and the local police chief is
already hinting that this LOOKS to be a quadruple murder-suicide. It's UNCLEAR
if all 5 victims are BIOLOGICALLY/familially related. In fact, it sounds as
though they may NOT be. They DID all LIVE together, at this house, for at least
the past three years, so they were a 'family unit'. At least TWO of the 5 dead
are CHILDREN, a boy and a girl.
Yup, another MASS murder that appears to have the tragic ending of the
rampaging killer choosing to commit a final, self-murder, at the very end.
I obviously CANNOT post ANY updates to this brand new, breaking mass murder
case, but certainly HOPE that other folks will pick up my posting mantle, while
I'm away on my monthly trip, and provide detailed updates as this case
continues to unfold. I HIGHLY recommend the Richmond Times-Dispatch online
newspaper, which SHOULD provide ONGOING, daily coverage of this case. The main
URL is:
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire:
Police Find Five Dead in Va. Home
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Police acting on a telephone tip found five bodies - at
least some of them shot - scattered throughout a suburban Richmond home.
Police Chief Carl Baker said a handgun was recovered at the home Thursday, but
he would not say whether all the victims had been shot. He declined to identify
the victims and gave few details about what police found inside the small brick
ranch house.
The tip was called in to the Chesterfield County Emergency Communications
Center at 6 p.m., said Don Kappel, the county's director of public affairs.
Kappel said some of the victims knew each other, but he gave no other details.
``The investigation is quite new. It's quite intensive and ongoing at this
time.''
Neighbors said a woman, two men and a boy and a girl had lived in the house for
at least three years, mostly keeping to themselves.
``They were not out of the ordinary at all,'' said neighbor Travis Whitlow.
Whitlow said the girl would come by his house periodically selling candy to
raise money for various causes, but he knew little else about the people.
AP-NY-06-30-00
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The following appears courtesy of the 6/30/00 online edition of The Richmond
Times-Dispatch newspaper:
Five dead at home in Chesterfield
Friday, June 30, 2000
BY MARK HOLMBERG
AND BILL WASSON
Times-Dispatch Staff Writers
Five people, apparently two of them children, were found dead in a Lake Genito
home in Chesterfield County yesterday afternoon.
The victims were found inside 2820 Perdido Drive. At least some of the victims
suffered gunshot wounds in what authorities there were calling the worst
homicide scene in recent memory.
A handgun was found in the locked home with the victims, who were located in
different rooms of the house, said county police spokesman Don Kappel.
Police declined to speculate whether any of the victims died from a
self-inflicted wound. Authorities made no mention of looking for a suspect or
suspects.
Neighbors said two children lived there with their mother, their father and the
mother's new husband. Neighbors believed the children were about 6 and 10.
Police did not release the victims' ages or identities.
Kappel said a call came into Chesterfield's emergency dispatch center at 5:58
p.m., alerting them that there may be bodies inside the house.
Chesterfield County police Chief Carl Baker said responding police had to force
their way into the home. At least two dogs were found alive in the home and
removed.
Late last night the normally quiet neighborhood was jammed with police
vehicles. Neighbors could hardly believe what had happened.
"There were no problems," at 2820 Perdido Drive, said next-door neighbor Marion
Ellis Jr. "They seemed nice."
He and another neighbor said the children's parents chose to remain living
together after they divorced so they could raise their children together. The
mother's new husband moved in with them.
Ellis learned of the unusual living arrangement last Christmas, when he helped
the family decorate a pine tree in their front yard.
"They were happy with the situation," Ellis said. "They said they knew some
people might think it was weird. I told them 'As long as you're happy, it
doesn't matter what people think.' "
Ellis, who works evenings, said he never heard any arguments or any other signs
of trouble. "They seemed fine. Down to earth."
Chesterfield's 1999 property assessment records show the three-bedroom, brick
rancher was purchased five years ago.
The tragedy on Perdido Drive appears to be one of the worst such incidents in
recent history in the Richmond area.
On Oct. 14, 1994, five family members, three of them children, were shot to
death in a Gilpin Court apartment by Christopher Goins. Goins, who also
critically wounded another family member -- his girlfriend -- was sentenced to
death for the slayings.
On Jan. 7, 1981, six people were shot to death inside a Walmsley Boulevard
home. They were all members or friends of the Invaders motorcycle gang,
supposedly killed by members of the Hell's Angels over a soured drug deal. The
suspects in that incident were found shot to death about 9 months later.
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Alison Henritze
lived in the house were a mother with her new husband, her two children
and the children's father, who was her ex-husband. Any bets on the
ex-hubby losing it and doing everybody? What a recipe for disaster.
Alison