A brother explains gut reaction to news of murders in 2002

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the impact Dana's actions have had on my

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life.

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I'll neve r forget the day that Mom

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called me to inform me that Mike and

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were dead.

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in California and I just came home from

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church.

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small kiddy pool for my boys Timothy and

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Joshua, ages five and three.

K~ren

My wife Robin and I were living

I was in the backyard setting up a

Robin came to

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the back door with a phone in her hand and

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I'll never forget the look on her face.

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asked what was wrong and she said it's mom

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!

and I asked 1s mom okay.

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She told me it's

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not mom, it was Mike, he's dead and so 1s

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Karen.

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shaking hands and spoke to mom.

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as she told me what was known.

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Karen had been brutally shot to death 1n

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Karen's home.

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anguish.

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I took the phone from Robin's I listened Mike and

I fell to my knees in

First thought that came to my mind was

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Dana did this.

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that he felt Dana was going to kill him.

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It's taken years for me to cope with the

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tragedy of the murders, on top of all this ,

Reported by :

Mike told me a year before

April C. Shepard, RPR, CCR, CSR


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