The content of this thread hits a little to close to home for me. I taught 5 years in the Harmony district 5 or 6 years after the murders occurred. To say it was still fresh in the community would be an understatement. Many of the people I worked with had taught, coached and were friends with the family. I taught and coached the killers oldest daughter while I was there.
Harmony is a very rural district, and the father was a very good business man. In a small community everyone know everyone else very well, that includes their kids. The estate at the time of killing was valued at over 3 million dollars. The granddaughter,the niece of the slain ended up with half of that money. Thinking back, she was a very sweet and innocent gal, her father was no longer with her and her mom when he killed his family. But the girl spent a lot of time at her grandparents house as a young girl.
From what I could gather, the parents were tired of their sons drug usage and had told him that they would no longer be giving him any more money until he stopped the drugs. I was told it was the mom that was the parent really pushing the idea, that is why he disfigured her body after shooting her.
Whenever anyone talked about the 3 girls they said they were all very pretty, talented, atheletic girls and their parents were involved in all their activities at the school. They said the boy was always different, from his siblings, and was in trouble throughout school.
May he rot in hell, after he spends the rest of his life in prison.
