On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:10:34 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:


"jps" wrote in message
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Another family dead!

The father had psychiatric problems but that didn't keep him from
owning and using a gun to help dispatch his family to heaven.

MIDDLETOWN, Md. -
An accountant for a railroad operator killed his wife and their three
children before fatally shooting himself in a northwest Maryland home,
leaving a gruesome scene that was discovered Saturday by the
youngsters' grandfather, authorities said.

Authorities didn't specify a motive but said there was evidence the
man faced psychiatric and financial problems.

When investigators arrived at the two-story home, the couple's two
sons, ages 5 and 4, lay dead in their beds, while the bodies of a
2-year-old daughter and the mother, Francis Billotti Wood, were in the
master bedroom, Frederick County sheriff's office spokeswoman Jennifer
Bailey said. On the master bedroom floor by the foot of the bed was
the father, 34-year-old Christopher Alan Wood, dead of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound, Bailey said.

The 33-year-old mother and three children suffered "traumatic cuts"
and each also had at least one gunshot wound from a .25-caliber
handgun, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said. Their precise
cause of death wasn't immediately known, and Jenkins declined to say
what was used to slash them.

The woman's father found them dead around 9 a.m. He had grown
concerned after not hearing from them for several days, Bailey said.

Christopher Wood apologized to family members in one of five notes he
wrote and left at the scene, and he indicated in a note that he had
psychiatric problems, Jenkins said. The sheriff wouldn't elaborate on
what else was written in the notes.

How did you know this guy so well? He wasn't the one you met at that
Interstate rest stop in Md., was it?

I've never actually been to MD but I'm betting you have...