Many of these tragedies turn into one page summaries: fourv dead bodies in an alley shot to death. No clues. Others are surprisingly interesting.
Santa Clara, Cal. (1969)
Before 09/31/1969: The career of the father, 48, as a credit
manager collapsed as his financial problems led to “misappropriation of funds”
from the credit bureau. Then his attempt at embezzling funds from his senile
mother-in-law failed. Neighbors said the family “seemed to just disappear in
the middle of the night.” The house changed hands several times before the
crime came to light. He ended up in Cedar City, Utah, where he explained that
his previous wife and family had died, which was technically true. Then he
vanished after embezzling more than $50,000, taking his son from second
marriage with him. He was eventually caught in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he married
a third time.
In 1974, a termite inspector went into the crawlspace of the
family home preparing the house for sale. He found a woman and her two teenaged
daughters buried there. He later admitted that he beat to death his wife and
one daughter with a hammer and strangled the other daughter.
He was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life.
Category: family
Suicide: no
Cause: financial?
Weapon: blunt[1]
[1] “Termite
Inspector Finds Victims of Triple Murder,” [Burley, Ida ] South Idaho Press,
Mar. 22, 1974, 1 .“House With a Secret,” [Scranton, Penn.] Times-Tribune, Oct.
06, 1974, 63, 70; “Former Biloxian Gets Life Term for Murders of Wife, Daughters,”
[Biloxi, Miss] Sun, Jan. 27, 1979, 8.
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