Saturday

I was awakened by frantic banging on the back door and little voices yelling "PAPA  PAPA!!"  I got the door open to see two of my grandsons standing there, sobbing with tears running down their cheeks.  "Mommy and Maggie are DEAD and Howie too" they choked out.


How can you react to something like this?  I could feel that it was true and  an icy chill ran down my spine as I tried to calm the boys and get them into the house.


My step son W, Sue's brother, got up and ran down to Sue's house as I tried to calm the boys.  In about 5 minutes W called and said that it was true and I called 911 to report the homicide.  The two boys, B aged 10 and R aged 7 had started to
calm a little and B told me that he had gone to the bathroom and seen the bodies lying in the kitchen and that he thought that they were dead.  R said that he had seen them too.

It was now about ten to eight and the boys had turned on the TV in the living room.  I can't begin to tell you about the turmoil going on in my head at this time.  Sue was 41 and her fiancé Howie was a couple of years older.  Maggie was 15 and had a whole life ahead of her.  She had been going through some of the teenage girl things but in the last month she had been doing well and was bringing up her marks in school.

More later,
John