Family annihilation cases
According to ABC News contributor and former FBI agent Brad Garrett, people responsible for killing their families tend to be white males in their 30s. Many of these crimes occur in August, before school starts, which may delay detection and investigation.
A 42-year-old Utah man gunned down seven family members, including his five children between ages 4 and 17, then turned the gun on himself — two weeks after his wife had filed for divorce, authorities said.
Officials in Enoch City on Thursday identified the suspected gunman in the murder-suicide as 42-year-old Michael Haight, and the victims as his wife, Tausha Haight, 40, their three daughters, ages 17, 12 and 7, and two sons, ages 7 and 4.
Also killed was Tausha Haight’s mother, 78-year-old Gail Earl, according to a press release from the Enoch City government. Each of the victims appeared to have gunshot wounds.23
The Pike County Massacre saw 8 people killed and it "shocked the state" though most people outside of Ohio never heard of it, and it soon was removed from the headlines.
Jeffrey MacDonald was, as the saying goes, outstanding in that capacity, murdering his pregnant wife and the two young daughters they had together. And he tried to blame the slaughter on Manson-style hippies, including bizarre details like a floppy hat and a candle, the killers chanting: "Kill the pigs." Fascinating case, but the loathsome MacDonald gets under your skin.
Typical American
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