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Updated: 6:31 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 | Posted: 12:53 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007
SEATTLE —
According to the document known as a "superform," Joseph McEnroe and Michele Anderson went to her parents' home -- each armed with a handgun -- intending to shoot and kill her parents, Wayne and Judith Anderson.
According to the report, Michele said she was armed with a 9 mm pistol and McEnroe was armed with a .357 revolver when they entered the Andersons' home on Christmas Eve. Within 30 minutes of arriving, Michele shot her father once and then McEnroe shot him at least one time, the report said. McEnroe then shot Anderson's mother, Judith, at least two times, killing her, according to the report.
The report said that Anderson and McEnroe then dragged the bodies to a shed in the back yard in an attempt to hide them. After an hour passed, Scott Anderson, Michele’s brother, arrived with his wife, Erica, and their two children. All were killed by gunshot within minutes, according to the document.
Michele Anderson's statement to police said she and McEnroe both shot her brother Scott and his wife, and then McEnroe shot their children, Olivia and Nathan, one time each in the head, killing them.
Photo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Scott Eklund Joseph Thomas McEnroe Joseph Thomas McEnroe, 29, a suspect in the Carnation murders, is brought into the King County Jail in Seattle on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2007. (Photo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Scott Eklund)
A judge on Thursday ordered Michele Anderson, 29, and McEnroe, 29, held without bail in the case that a relative said may have stemmed from a conflict over money.
The two did not appear at the bail hearing. They are being held in the King County Jail on suspicion of six counts of homicide.
The two went to the crime scene at the rural home of Anderson's parents on Wednesday hours after investigators arrived. They were questioned and arrested Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators have not found a weapon, and the only hint of a motive they have disclosed is a long-standing dispute between Michele and her parents, Wayne, 60, and Judith, 61, who owned the property where the killings occurred.
Ben Anderson, Wayne and Judy's grandson, spoke to reporters Wednesday night near the property and said that his aunt -- Michele Anderson -- had admitted to the killings.
He said that Michele told investigators that she and her boyfriend shot everyone inside the home, including Wayne and Judy Anderson, their son Scott and his wife, Erica, and their two young children Olivia, who a neighbor said was 5 years old, and Nathan, 3.
Ben Anderson said Michele lived rent-free in a trailer on the Carnation property and was upset over money.
"She was always that 'off child' that never was loved, and she felt that she was pushed out of the family and they were fighting about money," Ben Anderson told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Deborah Horne.
"She felt she wasn't loved enough and everyone didn't appreciate her and she was pushed out of everyone's life," he said, referring to Michele Anderson.
The bodies were found by a co-worker of one of the victims who had come to the house because one of the victims, who works for the U.S. Postal Service, did not report to work.
The county prosecutor's office is reviewing the case, with a decision on charges possible by Friday, said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
Authorities have not said what role either person played in the slayings, but Sgt. John Urquhart of the sheriff's office said both are expected to be charged with first-degree murder.
A public records search showed no signs that either of them had run into trouble with the law. Urqhuart said he hadn't conducted an extensive records search, but, "What I'm hearing is no criminal history on either one."
Mark Bennett, a family friend, said he was "fielding all phone call for the family -- what's left of the family" at the request of Michele's older sister, Mary.
Bennett said he did not know about any animosity in the family and declined to speculate what may have led to the shootings.
Bennett said he spoke with Judy and Wayne Anderson on Christmas Eve and tried to call them Christmas Day but could not reach them. He came to the Anderson's property Wednesday, which was roped off by crime scene tape, spoke with detectives, and said he fielded a call from Mary.
"She saw it on the news," he said. "She called me as I was leaving the site and said, 'Is it true?' and I said, 'Yes, it is,' and then hysterics broke out."
Bennett said Wayne and Judy Anderson "enjoyed their time together by themselves," relishing a quiet life in the 11 acres they shared in this small town about 25 miles east of Seattle.
He described Wayne as a hardworking Boeing Co. engineer who liked to fish and hunt, and said Judy was a Postal Service worker who "always had a smile and a happy face on her route delivering mail."
"There's nobody ever who's going to say a bad thing about them," he said.
One body was removed from the crime scene Wednesday, and Urquhart said the five other bodies might be removed on Thursday. Sheriff's detectives and investigators from the state crime lab spent Thursday painstakingly scouring the grounds for any clues.
Authorities are trying to determine why deputies didn't further investigate a 911 hang-up call on Christmas Eve that came from the house. The call ended after about 10 seconds, and the operator reported hearing "a lot of yelling in the background ... sounded more like party noise than angry heated arguing."
Operators twice called back, but both calls went into voice mail. About 30 minutes later, two deputies arrived at the property, but found a locked gate and did not go onto the property. The dispatchers log reported the deputies saying, "gate is locked, unable to gain access."
Previous Stories: December 27, 2007: Money May Be Behind Carnation Killings, Relative Says December 26, 2007: Two Arrested In Christmas Eve Slaying Of Family
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