Four found dead in Alabama home

[npk]

Source: Cnn

(CNN) -- Four people were found dead Tuesday morning in a home in northwestern Alabama, an investigator said.

Deputies with the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department found the bodies in Greenhill, Alabama, about 8:30 a.m., said Kelly Muston, an assistant investigator with the department.

Authorities were looking for Kevin Lee Garner, who is believed to have a connection to the people found in the home, Muston said.

Chief Investigator Travis Clemmons said that the home that Garner lives in was burned and that investigators were searching it Tuesday afternoon.

Investigators believe the fire "had something to do with a divorce hearing," Clemmons said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/07/four.dead.alabama/index.html

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[Tim01]

1. Will it ever end?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. No.

As old as life.

But be :scared: !

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Again?

[villager]

3. So we made it to Tuesday, this week, before the mass killings started...

...Maybe in some gentler time we'll go all the way to Wednesday or Thursday?

[superconnected]

19. Excuse me, Tuesday? We had a father murder his 5 kid over his wife leaving

him this weekend, then yesterday these murders happened - the 73 yo murdered his 73 yo wife who was leaving him, and the Ft Lewis soldier who was only 21 was murdered by her husband for again, leaving her.

apparently people don't want a divorce, they want full on murder of the spouse leaving them.

[villager]

25. sadly, I stand corrected....

n/t

[bdamomma]

4. very sad indeed.

[nonconformist]

5. What the fuck is going on?

This is seriously getting weird.

[ardvark]

6. expectations of 'American Dream' vs reality of 'American Nightmare'

of never ending occupational insecurity

is a large part of it, I bet

not that it justifies it, but I bet it's a contribution

[phantom power]

8. ardvark is right. We can expect this to continue as the economy collapses.

We can expect theft to rise too, as more people become desperate, and have nothing except too much time on their hands.

[OwnedByFerrets]

22. Not only contine, but accelerate.

[slackmaster]

10. It's April

1st
-1933 - Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
-2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the firstx country to allow it.
-2002 -The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2nd
-1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."
-2006 - 60 tornadoes break out in the US killing 29 people
3rd
-1974 - The Super Outbreak begins - 148 tornadoes - 13 states - 315 dead
-1996 - Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is arrested
-2004 - Surrounded by police, five suspects in Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up in a building outside the Spanish capital, also killing a special forces agent.
4th
-1841 - President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia one month after his inauguration, becoming the first U.S. president to die in office.
-1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
-2008 - Raid on FLDS compound in Texas
5th
-1887 - British historian Lord Acton wrote in a letter, "All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
6th
-1830 - Mormon church founded
-1917 - US declares war on Germany
-1994 - The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital which begins the Rwandan genocide.
7th
-1906 - Mt Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples
-2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.
8th
-1895 - The Supreme Court of the United States declares income tax to be unconstitutional
-1943 - President Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages & prices and prohibits workers from changing jobs
-1952 - President Harry S. Truman seized the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike.
9th
-1865 - Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the village of Appomattox Court House, Va.
10th
-1912 - Titanic Set Sail
-1963 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher and its crew of 129 was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
-1996 - President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call "partial-birth" abortion.
-2001 - The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
-2002 - Eight Israelis were killed by a suicide bomber aboard a bus in Haifa.
-2007 - A woman wearing an explosives vest strapped underneath her black robe blew herself up in the midst of 200 Iraqi police recruits in Muqdadiyah, killing 16.
11th
-1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba.
-1986 - Miami FBI Shoot-out
-2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country had succeeded in enriching uranium on a small scale for the first time.
12th
-1861 - Civil War begins
-1934 - The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
-1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage
-1999 - U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
-2001 - Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken declared a state of emergency amid an outbreak of racial violence.
13th
-1873 - Colfax Massacre - 108+ killed in Louisiana in a fight between whites and blacks
-1945 - German troops kill over 1,000 prisoners in Gardelegen Germany
-1970 - Oxygen tank on Apollo 13 explodes
-1992 - Great Chicago Flood
14th
-1846 -The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannabilism, and survival.
-1865 - Lincoln shot
-1935 - Black Sunday - the worst storm of the Dust Bowl
-2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military
15th
-1865 - Lincoln dies
-1912 - Titanic sinks
-1986 - The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5
-1989 - Hillsborough disaster - 96 soccer fans die in a 'human crush'
16th
-1947 - Texas City Disaster - freighter explodes killing 581 people and destroying the port of Texas City
-1990 - Jack Kevorkian goes through with his first assisted suicide
-2007 - a student killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., before taking his own life in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history
17th
-1861 - The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union
-1961 - About 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the southwestern coast of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
18th
-1775 - Paul Revere Rides
-1906 - a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died
-1983 - Suicide bomber destroys US Embassy in Beirut Lebanon killing 63
19th
-1775 - American Revolution begins
-1861 - Baltimore Riot - Pro-Secessionist marchers attacks US Army troops
-1933 - The United States went off the gold standard
-1943 - Warsaw Ghetto uprising
-1993 - Branch Davidian compound burns down
-1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing
-1997 - Flooding from the Red River forced more than 50,000 residents to abandon Grand Forks, N.D.
20th
-1889 - Hitler born
-1914 - Ludlow Massacre - 20 people (11 of them children) killed during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on striking miners
-1978 - Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets
-1999 - Columbine School Shooting
-2007 - Johnson Space Center Shooting & Hostage situation
21st
-1836 - Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto
-1898 - Spanish-American War begins
-1980 - Rosie Ruiz, the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, was disqualified when officials discovered she had jumped into the race about a mile from the finish
-1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests
22nd
-1889 - Oklahoma Land Run
-1945 - Jasenovac Concentration Camp Revolt - 520 prisoners killed
-2000 - In a pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seized Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' home in Miami
23rd
-2003 - SARS outbreak forces Beijing schools to close for two weeks
24th
-1877 - Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South
-1898 - Spain declared war on the United States
-1915 - Armenian Genocide begins
25th
-1792 - Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine
-1898 - The United States declared war on Spain
-1945 - Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations
-2007 - The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time
26th
-1865 - John Wilkes Booth killed
-1933 - Gestapo is established
-1986 - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
-1991 - 55 tornadoes break out in the central US killing 24
-2000 - Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions
-2002 - An expelled student went on a shooting rampage at a school in Erfurt, Germany, killing 13 teachers, two students and a police officer before taking his own life.
27th
-1805 - Marines attack Derna, Tripoli
-1861 - Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus allowing him to imprison 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial
-1865 - The steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 Union prisoners of war
28th
-1789 - The crew of the British ship Bounty mutineed
-1967 - Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.
-1973 - The town of Antelope California ceases to exist as a train carrying 6000+ bombs and liquefied petroleum gas explodes reducing every building to the foundation
-1988 - The roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled back during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu, killing a flight attendant and injuring 61 people.
-2004 - The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS
29th
-1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp
-1945 - Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. The couple killed themselves the next day.
-1992 - Rodney King riots
30th
-1789 - Washington becomes first elected president of US
-1900 - Casey Jones died in a train wreck
-1945 - Hitler commits suicide
-2001 - Chandra Levy went missing

[nonconformist]

24. That's quite a list.

And it's still early in the month...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Jesus. Can we stop mutilating each other for a week or so?

[rrneck]

9. Lotsa people close to the line

and the line just got moved.

[Haole Girl]

11. Is this a new and disturbing trend?

Or just getting more media attention than the past?

:shrug:

[nomorenomore08]

13. Little from Column A, little from Column B, would be my guess.

:shrug:

[Haole Girl]

15. Thanks

This question has been on my mind a lot lately.

[nomorenomore08]

16. To be more specific, I think people are going crazier than usual due to the economy, but the media

is also more bloodthirsty than it's ever been. So it's like a perfect storm of insanity and fear-mongering - scary stuff, huh?

[Haole Girl]

17. It is very scary. And, I agree, the media is being bloodthirsty.

I certainly hope all the attention they give these stories will not create "copy cats". :-(

[depakid]

12. Suspect in the shooting still on the loose:

Apparently, He's switched cars several times.

http://www.whnt.com/whnt-greenhill-home-deaths,0,5663695.story

[RedCloud]

18. Remember these AND the robber barons on Wall Street

Let them not divert us with blood. These are tragedies and interwoven within the great greed of the robber barons who siphon away the hopes of the many.

[xchrom]

20. holy hell -- is everything just coming loose at the seams? nt

[L0oniX]

21. Ban matches and lighters.

[Barack_America]

23. Suspect found dead.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/04/body_found_near_priceville.html

Looks like yet another murder suicide.

Jesus.

ETA: Article with more detail.

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090407/NEWS/904079990/1011/NEWS?Title=Five-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide

[Blue_Tires]

26. ugh...a lot of fun comments at that article...

or course the mainstream librul media is ONLY making news of this because they are part of the one-world government's gun-grabbing conspiracy....:sarcasm:

[bloomington-lib]

27. Official: Ala. man kills wife, 3 others, self

Source: ap

A man facing a divorce trial shot and killed his estranged wife, their teenage daughter and two other relatives in rural north Alabama before returning to his home in a nearby town and killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.

The victims were identified as Garner's estranged wife, Tammy, 40; their 16-year-old daughter, Chelsie; Garner's sister, Karen Beaty of Illinois; and Beaty's 11-year-old son, whose name was not released.

Investigators said the four were shot, apparently with a handgun, around midnight Monday. They did not know if Kevin Garner was licensed to carry a firearm.

It was one of eight mass shootings around the country — and the third in Alabama — in the last month that have left grief-stricken communities in shock.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_us/alabama_four_dead

[Uzybone]

28. This type of thing doesn't happen here

has never rung more hollow.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

30. Who in the hell ever said that?

[Gormy Cuss]

41. Watch local news coverage after an event like this.

There's usually at least one neighbor interviewed who says something to that effect unless the incident happened in a high crime area.

[Jefferson23]

29. 8 mass shootings in the last month, unbelievable. They are going to need

to start running mental health ads on TV and radio soon, at least try and get the word out to get help, free of charge please!

[Arugula Latte]

31. This country is sick, sick, sick.

And of course it is a man doing the killing again.

[norepubsin08]

32. Half of this is the fault of the NRA

if we didn't have such easy access to handguns a lot of this wouldn't be happening!

[timtom]

34. I'm not trying to be a smartass, but

seriously, I have always held up violent sports as a major contributor to the violent ethos we continue to engender in this country.

I'm not married to this idea, but I feel it's a strong possibility.

[norepubsin08]

37. That'spart of it too

along with our glorification of the military and cops!!!

[boilinmad]

38. I totally agree.

....Not just violent sports, but also peoples addiction to all the mean-spirited reality shows. People tune in so that they can see the contestants being humiliated and beaten down, and ultimately cast their votes for the one that is 'superior' in their eyes. Also, look around at all the cars people drive. Black with black tinted windows. Mean looking things that need to be bigger and higher than the cars around them. I'm not trying to be a smartass either, or paranoid, but what I see is a whole culture of meanness and violence that is spreading like gangbusters.

[bdamomma]

40. yep.

I am sure the NRA does not give a crap.

[firedupdem]

33. What the hell? Everyday there is another mass shooting. n/t

[xchrom]

35. and just like that -- more people just wiped out. nt

[paparush]

36. Parents slaughtering their children. Does this happen with such frequency anywhere else?

[bdamomma]

39. sad very sad indeed.

[rolltideroll]

42. I live in this community

It was the safest place on earth. Low crime rate, violent crimes are extremely rare. My sister sat next to the girl who was murdered by that coward. Personally, I think it is a shame that he killed himself. The preferable solution would have been to gut shoot him and leave him for the animals in the woods over how long it takes to murder this cowardly piece of filth. He is truly a sub human monster that had to be put down like a viscous animal.