I believe this is a murder/suicide and have since the beginning. However, lets just say it turns out to be something else, I still have a problem with all of her friends/family saying she was the most wonderful mother, doting mother, never would have harmed her girls, fiercely protective, etc......If the rumors are true about the BF being abusive including one of the fathers making the statement "the home she was living in, we just feel it wasn't a great place for our children to have been loved"; then IMO she wasn't a fiercely protective, doting mother at all. I think I read that she moved in with him after dating a year. So she moves in with a man whose supposedly been abusive and brings her 16 yr old and 10 yr old daughters with her. Really?! If she was on the verge of being homeless, I could possibly understand it a bit more, but by all accounts, she was making good money, didn't need his money, had plenty of friends/family to live with and had been renting a very expensive home. Lastly, people will say that nobody understands the dynamics of an abusive relationship unless your in one, so we can't judge her on that. Well I do understand it and lived it. After I divorced and my son was young, I dated a man for 3 years who was extremely physically, verbally, and mentally abusive. I had no family near me and very few friends, if any, at that time. Thankfully, I had a good job and my own home. Here's the thing, I never moved in with him and I only saw him on the weekends my son was with his Dad and/or during the day when my son was in school. I share this only because it upsets me when everyone is saying what a great mother she was. Whether this is deemed a murder/suicide or not, she was NOT a "doting, fiercely protective mother who would never harm her girls". IMO