The Mind Reels

Not even an attempt at being upbeat today. Trying to get my head around something almost unimaginable, at least in real life.

Here in the middle of the pandemic, medical people are obviously seriously stressed and overworked. One doctor (52 years old), directed a clinic and was a professor at the local medical school and very well-respected. She also had an issue, an underlying condition that made her especially vulnerable to Covid-19. So she was being very careful about social distancing, and asked her husband and daughter to be sure to do the same.

Husband did, but daughter and her boyfriend (both living with the doc and her husband) didn't comply. So the doctor and her husband rented a nearby Airbnb for the kids. Daughter got upset and frustrated, said the mother obviously didn't care about her. (?) Daughter also at some point had told her boyfriend that the parents were wealthy and had lots of money lying around the house.

Boyfriend thought he needed easy money, so he and a colleague decided burglarizing the doc's house would be a good thing. But apparently things didn't go well, maybe the parents woke up or the burglars got otherwise frustrated. They ended up kidnapping the parents (still in their sleepwear) and drove them (in an SUV the parents had furnished the kids) to a nearby wildlife conservation area, and executed them, shooting them each in the head and leaving them in a ditch. Husband died immediately, wife lived until a jogger found them next morning, but died at the hospital.

Police got some very strong early leads and in their investigation talked to daughter. She told them her boyfriend had been with her at the Airbnb all night. But with GPS research, police followed the route of the SUV and soon made a solid case against the boyfriend and his colleague. They are now in jail, with $1,000,000 bail. No charges (yet) against the daughter).

So sickening, heart-rending, and simply sad on so many levels. I'm glad I can't understand it.