IN - Ana Casas, 28, & 3 daughters murdered, Fort Wayne, 13 Dec 2005

[concernedperson]

It's nothing new - we just hear about it now. And we hear about a ton of them, from all over the USA, where before you'd only know if it was your neighbors down the street. It's not as common as it feels - millions on millions of husbands don't kill nor abuse their families. Divorces almost always happen without violence. Family arguments generally result in nothing more than hurt feelings.

But we don't hear about all of those much, where the few cases of a bad husband or wife killing their kids, kids killing their parents - that we hear about. Not the millions of happy or at least content families.

I believe it is much more pervasive. There are feelings simmering among many. I also believe there are millions of people who do the right thing. And these feelings don't surface because they are fairly normal. It is the disconnect we are looking at and the way it continues to happen.Unfortunately, it happens to the most vulnerable.

 

[SewingDeb]

WOW - I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was connected with Alejandra's disappearance. Creepy....

Apparently it IS related. This man took police to her body.

 

[lisag]

How sad... To bad this SOB couldn't have killed himself and spared the life of 5 innocent people !

 

[chicoliving]

An illegal immigrant serving five life terms for the strangling deaths of his wife, three young daughters and a neighborhood girl apparently took his own life Thursday by hanging himself, authorities said.

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On Dec. 8, 2005, Rios lured 10-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez, a former classmate of his eldest daughter, into his van as she waited at a school bus stop in Fort Wayne. Authorities say he raped and strangled her, then dumped her body in a gravel pit 50 miles away near Muncie.

Five days after killing Alejandra but before her body was found, Rios fatally beat and strangled his wife, Ana Casas-Rios, 28, and strangled their three daughters, Liliana, 10, Katherinne, 4, and 20-month-old Thannya, in their Fort Wayne home.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435443,00.html

 

[SieSie]

Thanks for the update, chico!