No Explanation
Despite all the news about pirates, stimulus package fraud, and torture, the stories that have caught my attention recently have all been of a more local and personal nature. I’m appalled and probably a little fascinated, in a morbid way, with the recent spate of parents and spouses murdering their families and then committing suicide.
The one that is garnering the most press in the Washington area is this story about a man who murdered his wife and four children, then killed himself.
In notes left in family’s killings, Md. man details debts, depression
The title tries to explain everything in a few words, the way newspapers always do, so that the reader immediately grasps what happened. Depressed and anxious over mounting debt, a loving husband and father murders his family and then kills himself.
There you go, a one sentence explanation. Move along, now. Nothing more to see here. Except that sometimes it’s hard to accept the preferred meaning of an event.