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Daughter, Beau Arrested in Christmas Eve Family Killings

Posted Dec 27, 07 4:22 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – Police have arrested a 29-year-old woman and her boyfriend in the gruesome Christmas Eve shootings of six members of her family in rural Washington, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The couple is being held on suspicion of murdering the woman's parents, her brother, his wife, and their 6- and 3-year old children. The six were found yesterday.

Michelle Anderson and Joseph McEnroe, both 29, were tracked down after police responded to a 911 call from the house the night of the crime but left when they found the gate locked. Anderson's nephew said she lived on her parents' property with McEnroe. A sheriff's spokesman had no comment on possible motives, and the hunt for the murder weapon continues.

Source Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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King County Sheriff's deputy Don Hasting strings police tape near the scene of where at least three people were found dead earlier in the day, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, in Carnation, Wash. More than three...   (Associated Press)
An investigator heads into a home surrounded by police tape at the scene where six people were found dead Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, in Carnation, Wash. Sgt. Jim Laing said the bodies were discovered about...   (Associated Press)
A King County Sheriff's deputy directs a driver near the scene of where at least three people were found dead Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, in Carnation, Wash. Sgt. Jim Laing said the bodies were discovered...   (Associated Press)
Brad Carpenter, left, and another neighbor who declined to be named, look on near the scene of where at least three people were found dead Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, in Carnation, Wash. Sgt. Jim Laing...   (Associated Press)
A King County Sheriff's deputy records a pickup truck near the scene of where six people were found dead Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, in Carnation, Wash. The truck was later marked with evidence tags and...   (Associated Press)
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