Garland Bernell Harper Murders Girlfriend, Kids
October 27, 2008 by impqueen
Houston, TX -On Friday morning, Triska LaShaun Rose, 38, didn’t show up for work. Her daughters, Briana Roberson, 15, and Maya Love, 7, didn’t show up for school. Immediately, everyone knew something was wrong. RoseRose reviews
never skipped work without calling. She made sure her kids were at school. None of Rose’s emergency contacts had heard from her. Nobody could reach her. Triska Rose’s family called police.
Houston PD officers went by the Turtlewood Condominiums in southwest Houston once, but nobody answered the door. Everything looked okay outside. With no sign of forced entry and no reason to believe Rose would harm herself or her children, the police left.
At around 5:00 p.m. FridayFriday reviews
, relatives got tired of waiting. Something, they said, was very very wrong. A group of worried friends and relatives went over the condo’s patio fence and broke into the home. InsideInside reviews the apartment lay Triska, Briana and MayaMaya reviews. They’d been brutally murdered.
All three victims were found with their hands bound with wire behind their backs and appeared to have been stabbed with a sharp object and strangled with a telephone cord. Maya, the youngest, was wrapped in a blanket – usually seen as a sign of remorse from a killer who knows and cares for a child victim. Briana, described as energetic and bouncy by family, was found face down in a bathroom. And Triska was “covered in blood”, according to the family members who found her.
MissingMissing reviews from the bloody scene was Rose’s fiance’, Garland Bernell Harper. A career felon who finished a ten-year prison term this year, Harper is not Briana or Maya’s father. He is, however, an “ordained minister”, according to Rose’s stepbrother Donald Farley. Farley had Harper, Rose and the girls in his home during Hurricane Ike and said that the family unit seemed stable, with lots of “cooking and praying” during the visit. So where was he?
Nobody’s sure where he was all that afternoon, but late on Friday evening, Garland Harper returned to the scene of the murders, where he turned himself in to Houston police. Cause of death for the three victims is pending autopsy and should be released early this week.
The only real question now is why. I’ve got my eye on a motive, but it’s purely speculation – I’d bet Harper was making moves on Briana and she told her mother. Rather than give up “his girls”, Harper killed them. But that’s just my Dreamin’ Demonized eye. Could have been anything from finances to drugs to just plain meanness.
Garland Bernell Harper is being held in the Harris County Jail on capital murder charges. He is scheduled to be in court today. We’ll update this case as more details become available.
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8:56 am on October 27th, 2008
so sad for that family.. i cant believe the cops didn’t look inside.. you would think they would. so this family doesn’t have to break in the home, and find what they did. i hope they catch the guy.
9:02 am on October 27th, 2008
my opinion ( aside from this guy being a sick f**k nut ) is that she may have been getting ready to leave him and he found out. Some men feel that they have an entitlement to keep their “family”. And if they can’t have them then no one can.
9:55 am on October 27th, 2008
Yeah I thought that too, maybe since she’s an adult there’s a law you have to wait 24 hours or something, but with kids involved I’m not sure. So sad for the family, hope they can get through this!
10:06 am on October 27th, 2008
Damm,
given the amount of violent and domestic crimes in todays society, Police need to have the right to enter a house of anybody whom there is concern for their well being, adult or child. They could still be alive in there, or the clues to what happened and where they may be are still fresh. By the time it’s been long enough for police to act, it’s definatly too late for that person.
10:30 am on October 27th, 2008
Did Harper live in that condo?? If he did, the police should have entered, considering that he is a career felon who recently got out of jail. How long did this woman date this man she was engaged to?? He has been in jail for ten years and has only been out since recently? How well can you know someone? I feel bad for these people who were killed, they did not deserve it in any way, shape or form. But, to get involved with a man who has a criminal past and most likely present, is not smart. You are asking for trouble. You have children who are your responsibility to protect, you don’t bring a felon into your home!!!
11:29 am on October 27th, 2008
This woman was 38.. His pic makes hi look about 19… and she had a 15 y.o.daughter.. Methinks molestation was the game and Mom found out,, fight ensued and he ended up killing them. A convicted felon and children don’t mix.. Wake up people.. you are responsible for your childrens welfare and safety… This must be so sad for the family.. I’m sure they had their own concerns too..What a terrible way to find your loved ones…
11:38 am on October 27th, 2008
Who ever knows what trigges anyone to do such a heinous thing? 7 years old-that is just so sad-so very sad. What a piece of shit…
11:55 am on October 27th, 2008
Nice that the citizenry had to the police officers’ job for them. Maybe they should pay those citizens for their time
What was in in for, I’d like to know.
I’m guesing Rose did the cooking while Shittard made himself “useful” with the praying.
He sure looks chipper in his mugshot. Those aren’t the red eyes and puffy face you’d expect from someone who had been crying over his foul misdeeds.
10:10 pm on October 28th, 2008
Oh, my. Soooooo sad. Those poor girls.
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