Correction

The story I reported on a couple days ago is starting to change from what the news had originally reported.  I hate when that happens, but it usually does at a murder scene when there's no one left to witness what happened.  Just want to clear this up on my blog.

The 23-year-old murdered woman was the killer's ex-sister-in-law. He was in a custody dispute with his ex-wife (her sister) over their 6-year-old daughter.

In an early TV interview with a family spokesman, even before the killer was caught, it was stated that she'd recently found out she was pregnant again.  And the police thought the massacre was either drug-related (yes, the guy was a druggie, no surprise there) or over a custody dispute. So everyone was assuming the worst of the poor girl, that she had been carrying his child.

Now they're assuming that he killed his ex-wife's sister and her family because if he couldn't have his baby, she wasn't going to have hers either.

It is also speculated that when he saw that the 6-year-old girl (his niece by marriage) was still alive, he may have started to realize the awful thing he had done and was perhaps thinking of his own 6-year-old daughter when he handed the little girl over to a neighbor to call 911 before he fled the scene.

The child's condition has been upgraded to fair.  What a horrible, tragic thing this child will carry with her the rest of her life.  It just breaks my heart!