Chisago County, MN – It’s not clear when Douglas and Candice Ouellette’s marriage started to fall apart, but by June, Candice had obviously had enough, and filed for a protection order against her husband. On the application, she stated that Douglas had been suffering from depression and suicidal tendencies for quite some time. She wrote that on June 17, he held a gun to his head and told her, “I want you to see this so you remember for the rest of your life.” Candice took the gun from his hand – he whipped out a second one and held it to his head. She called 911 and Douglas was taken to a hospital. She decided to file for the restraining order when she discovered his normally empty guns were loaded – each one with five bullets. The number of bullets equaled the number of members in their little family. Candice filed for divorce on June 29 – Douglas was granted visitation with his children, and access to his shop and outbuildings on the property during the day, but was ordered not to enter the house. He was allowed to call or e-mail his wife once a day. He couldn’t have his guns back until he underwent a psychological evaluation. As of Wednesday night, the marriage is officially over – permanent like. Douglas strangled Candice to death before taking his own life. What’s worse, the kids were home at the time.  [Read more...]

Dallas, Texas Honestly, how many times have we jokingly threatened our children with “I’m going to hang you by your feet”? Better yet, how many times have our children bounced off the walls and we secretly entertained the same idea? Or plotted it out, complete with the story we’d tell Child and Family Services once someone ratted us out? For me, maybe only a couple of times regarding my children, several times over concerning my husband. But that’s a whole other story right there! To actually act on that impulse takes either great nerve, great stupidity, a chemical imbalance, or a nasty mix of the three. [Read more...]

5-2-08 – Albert Perez, 27, has been charged with killing Duceliz and her daughter, Kayla, and staging the murder to look like suicide. More details at end of article.

Bernville, PA – Initially thought to be a murder-suicide, Duceliz Diaz, 22, and her daughter, 5-year-old Kayla, were found hanging in the second-floor apartment where they lived in Bernville on Jan 15th. Now, a month after their bodies were discovered, investigators are now claiming this as a double homicide. Family members became worried when Diaz’s sister received an e-mail from her sister less than two hours before the bodies were found. The message said Diaz was going to do something that would forever change the family, expressed love for family members and said Diaz would be watching over them. Relatives immediately went to the apartment, and kicked open the door.

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I am late getting this one posted, but it was the weekend and we had so much crap going on with other stories, that it kept getting pushed back.

AUSTIN, Texas - Some of you may have read about this already, but in Texas, a 7-year-old boy was found hanging by his shirt from a coat hook in a dressing room at the Not Your Ordinary School charter campus for children in pre-kindergarten through third grade. He was found by a teacher when he never returned from being excused from an assembly to go to the bathroom. They found him unconscious, caught on the hook by his shirt with the collar having cut off oxygen. He died last FridayFriday reviews.

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VINELAND, N.J. — A 7-year-old boy used a belt to hang himself in his bedroom on Wednesday, reportedly over receiving a bad grade earlier in the day. The boy's siblings, mother, stepfather and grandfather were home at the time and discovered his body when he  failed to respond to his parent's call to dinner. Read the full article

Spokane, WA - In an attempt to avoid a divorce, Sean Jennings asked his wife to come out to the garage to see the haunted house he had created for HalloweenHalloween reviews. He also asked her to climb a ladder so he could test out a noose he was gong to use to hang a skeleton. When she put her head through the noose, Sean turned on a radio in the garage and pulled the ladder out from under her.

The woman was able to periodically support herself on her tip toes and was only able to escape after promising her husband she would not divorce him or tell anyone what he had just done. She later called police from a Wal-Mart parking lot.

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CORSICANA, Texas — 6-year-old Hannah Mack was found hanging inside her family’s garage. She had also been sexually assaulted before she died. Police have made no arrests or named any suspects and are saying little about their investigation. Police also asked state caseworkers to not say whether Hannah’s family had been investigated by child welfare officers.

Navarro County Judge Vicki Gray said an autopsy of the body showed “a multitude of events that together caused the death of this child.“.

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Hudson Oaks, Texas – Gilberta Estrada, 25, and her four children were found hanging in a bedroom closet of their mobile home by articles of clothing. One of the children, an 8-month-old, Evelyn Frayre, was still alive. The dead include the Estrada, a Wendy’s employee, along with three other daughters Maria Teresa Estrada, Janet Frayre and Magaly Frayreaged.

The bodies were discovered by the woman’s sister who lives across the street. She became concerned after she did not show up for work. The woman’s estranged husband has been questioned by officials, but is not considered a suspect. The sheriff said the hangings appeared to be murder-suicide because the trailer’s doors were locked from the inside and a relative said the woman had been depressed.

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