scuffling noises in the night.....

[runfrumu]

probably a deranged boyfriend or ex of the daughter.

 

[another okie]

"Who the hell did this?" Kirchner said. "I mean, that neighborhood is a class neighborhood."

Statements like this used to really irritate me. Now I realize they are just a coping mechanism, a way of saying "it can't happen to me because..."

 

[CNYCacher]

Ok, so the killer kills dad in his sleep, stabs mom as she wakes up, and then leaves her to die as he moves to the son's room. Daughter comes to the parents' room and in the dark doesn't notice that mom is covered in blood and dad is dead. Mom urges her to go get help and she makes it out, having never seen the killer or even realizing that her mom was already mortally wounded.

Creepy.

The whole thing is a little too "horror movie".

 

[psyopspec]

Okie, it also can be a form of self-absolution. "There's no way we could have seen this coming" is justifiable in some cases:

Just as strange was the fate of a British officer, Major Summerford, who while fighting in the fields of Flanders in February 1918 was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning and paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day in 1924, as he fished alongside a river, lightning hit the tree he was sitting under and paralyzed his right side. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered that he was able to take walks in a local park. He was walking there one summer day in 1930 when a lightning bolt smashed into him, permanently paralyzing him. He died two years later. But lightning sought him out one last time. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck a cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. The deceased buried here? Major Summerford.

-from a geocities website on historic coincidences. Take it for what it's worth, either way it's an interesting tale.

Humans violently attacking one another? That's another matter entirely. While the details change, it's always happend and always will. Speaking of details, I'm in the camp that says we don't have enough to go on.

 

[Hardtarget]

Why do I keep thinking of the story of Lizzy Borden? If the daughter didn't do it...could have been a boy friend. Kill everyone...inherit everything. Instant wealth.

Even sounds bad to me. We'll never know 'cause we'll never hear.

Mark.

 

[akodo]

good thing the attacker didn't have a gun, if he did, the death toll would have been much higher!

 

[Sunray]

"...good neighborhood..." That'd be a target rich environment for criminals. There's nothing to steal in 'bad neighbourhoods' and the assorted riff-raff that live there are all armed.

 

[QuickDraw]

It was Colonel Mustard with the lead pipe in
the library.
If I had to guess,I'd say the daughter.Pretty weird
that shes home a week and then this.What did she
bring home from school?

 

[Zen21Tao]

This looks like a typical example of life the anti-gun crowds "ideal" world. The attacker didn't use an gun and there wasn't a gun in the house "to make the outcome worse." In eyes of a gun grabber, the daughter did the right thing. Rather than getting a firearm and having a chance at saving the lives of her family (or in the words of gun grabbers "making a bad situation worse"), she ran away and called the police so they could respond after everyone in the house had been killed.

I sorry, this "ideal gun grabber world" looks pretty bleak to me. To me, "getting help" means grabbing a gun not the phone.