ICYMI: This IndyStar investigation more than a year in the making sheds light on a disturbing trend that is growing worse in the US.
and more. Many of these killers — perceived as educated, hardworking and family-oriented — flew under the radar of law enforcement, neighbors, their communities, and even their own families.identified common motives in family annihilation: suicide, immortality, control and revenge.
In Mumper's case, Adams said he may have struggled to come to terms with his own impending death from cancer and decided to “take” his family with him. He may have also harbored aggrievement toward his wife for wanting to leave their marriage. Looking back, Amanda wondered how she didn’t see the signs, if there were any signs to see. How did she not know what was coming?
The investigation found protective orders weren’t the only problem — police inaction contributed to several deaths. Just days before a Florida man shot and killed his wife, 15-year-old son, mother-in-law and himself, police responded to a report of gunfire at the couple’s apartment. Officers left without arresting anyone.In another case, an Ohio police department opened an internal investigation after officers responded to reports of a woman being threatened by a man with a gun.
The U.S. has three times more family annihilations than Canada, eight times more than Great Britain and 15 times more than Australia, according to“Owning a gun, on you or in your house, is highly related to domestic violence homicides,” said Campbell, the expert from Johns Hopkins University. “They’re almost always done with guns.”
Advocates say public awareness of this type of family violence is needed now more than ever — especially after a federal appeals court in Texas ruled people with protective orders against them can legally have guns. But the decades-old gun and box of bullets weren't all the family found that pointed to premeditation. There was a new box of ammunition, too. The family sees that as a sign he planned the killings and did not want to take a chance using the old ammunition.“I know husbands kill their wives,” she continued. “I know no marriage is perfect. But why would you kill your children? As a parent, I don’t understand that. I will never understand that.
Other survivors escaped physically unharmed, but mentally scarred. “Daddy was coming over for my birthday,” an 11-year-old girl told police in New York. “Then he shot people.” She hid in the closet as her father killed her mother, sister and himself. "I don't want to excuse Jeff Mumper. I want to forgive, I'm not there yet. But he's robbed three beautiful people of their future. He's robbed us of beloved friends ... all three of them were in the prime of their lives, and so it's impacted Bloomington in such a profound way."As the months passed, the Okulskis and others who loved the Mumper family faced a special kind of hell.
That day in September, she had planned to surprise Emma with the news that she’d passed the bar exam. Emma had just sent her a box of chocolates and good luck wishes. Sometimes, Amanda would stare at Jeffrey Mumper’s young face and feel empty. It was disappointing — how similar Jake and his father looked, but how different they were as people.
Lauren Hash's stutter improved with therapy. Though she was still not practicing law, she went back to school to get a master’s degree in library science. In class, she measured her anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10, knowing that when she reached a 6, she had to get out and breathe.
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