# A most bizarre murder **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747 "2008-09-29T18:25:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/1 "2008-09-29T18:25:25Z")
This happened to a colleague, and though I didn’t know her, several of my coworkers did. In half an hour there’s going to be a memorial service for her. A man shot his wife, called the police, then shot himself. That’s sad enough, but unfortunately, these things happen sometimes. What makes it weird and creepy is that he listed both of their birth **and death** dates on his website, apparently before he even killed his wife. That’s just freaky. [http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking\_news/2008/09/2\_dead\_in\_appar.html](http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/09/2_dead_in_appar.html) ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/2 "2008-09-29T18:47:29Z")
That’s not creepy, that’s premeditated. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/3 "2008-09-29T18:51:20Z")
So sad that no one noticed the changes to his website until it was too late. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/4 "2008-09-29T18:53:35Z")
Weird. She has my same birthday! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/5 "2008-09-29T19:01:41Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Weird. > > She has my same birthday! :eek: Now that’s creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/6 "2008-09-29T19:36:42Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > So sad that no one noticed the changes to his website until it was too late. ☹ Would you have thought it meant something and called the police? I wouldn’t have. The murder suicide that is the saddest I’ve heard in the last few years, was at John Muir Park. Daddy took his baby there for New Years and killed them both with a gun. ---
**Author:** ![vintageloveletter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/7 "2008-09-29T19:56:04Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Would you have thought it meant something and called the police? I wouldn’t have. Well, yeah, if I knew one of these two people and happened to visit the site. I certainly would have contacted someone to learn about their demise. Major red flag if I learned they hadn’t passed away. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/8 "2008-09-29T20:03:41Z")
> [@vintageloveletter](#): > > Well, yeah, if I knew one of these two people and happened to visit the site. I certainly would have contacted someone to learn about their demise. Major red flag if I learned they hadn’t passed away. I took it it mean as a stranger just seeing the site and with no personal knowledge of them before the visit. ---
**Author:** ![vintageloveletter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/9 "2008-09-29T20:17:11Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I took it it mean as a stranger just seeing the site and with no personal knowledge of them before the visit. Well, of course you can’t do anything in that case. You can’t do anything if you don’t have knowledge of the situation. I took what **Mahna Mahna** said to mean friends/co-workers/people in the know who were visiting the site. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/10 "2008-09-29T20:23:04Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Would you have thought it meant something and called the police? I wouldn’t have. If they were total strangers or passing acquaintances, probably not. However, if they were close acquaintances or friends, I’d probably have picked up the phone and contacted someone to see if I could get more information. So I guess I should have reworded it to mean “too bad no one who knew them well noticed the changes to the website”. It would be kind of silly to expect total strangers to understand the relevance. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/11 "2008-09-29T21:29:14Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > The murder suicide that is the saddest I’ve heard in the last few years, was at John Muir Park. Daddy took his baby there for New Years and killed them both with a gun. I was just thinking about the Zantop murders as being the worst thing I know of locally. The killings themselves and then the idea that someone popping in for dinner found them–unlocked doors and helping folks who come by is part of living here and this was such a shock. And crazy senseless. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/12 "2008-09-29T23:43:00Z")
Weird. She has my same birthday! OP by Delores Reborn Mine Too! (really) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-most-bizarre-murder/465747/13 "2008-09-30T00:19:03Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > The murder suicide that is the saddest I’ve heard in the last few years, was at John Muir Park. Daddy took his baby there for New Years and killed them both with a gun. Daddy had a multiple personality disorder?