Is the economy leading to more murder-suicides? FBI Probes Finances of Man Who Killed Family
TOWSON, Md. (WJZ/AP) ―
Click to enlarge - Police say William Parente killed his wife and daughters, and then killed himself.A gruesome murder/suicide in a Towson hotel room has the FBI looking into the family’s finances.
Jessica Kartalija reports police now say William Parente was involved in a multi-million dollar investment scheme.
Investment schemes are not uncommon. It’s during tough economic times like these that experts say people panic, and that may have led to this murder/suicide….
The Associated Press
This time, residents wanted more than updates to another murder investigation. They wanted solutions to the trend.
Some of the 200 residents who crammed into the community meeting blamed the Lupoes’ deaths on a dismal local economy. They cited a suicide note left by Ervin Lupoe in which he describes the “horrendous ordeal” that he and his wife endured after being fired from their jobs as medical technicians at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center West Los Angeles.
“Their employer led them to this,” said Carmen Adame, who told city officials she believed Lupoe, like many in her community, was being forced to work under unreasonable conditions.
“Employers are abusing this economy because people don’t want to lose their jobs,” she said
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Apr 14, 2009 11:17 pm US/Eastern
Crisis Intervention Expert Says People Are “Stretched Too Tight”
Hard Times Also Reduce Mental Health Assistance
National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-SUICIDE(784-2433)
Business, unfortunately, is booming,” said Teresa Descilo, director of Miami-Dade’s Victim Services Center, which provides crisis counseling. “We have seen our intakes triple.”
Descilo believes the declining economy is largely behind the increase in domestic violence and murder-suicides. “The stresses of the economy, which almost everybody has felt, are stretching people thin. Stress means to stretch tight, and people have been stretched tight.”
Amid the real estate meltdown, layoffs, and declining fortunes, Descilo said otherwise typical feelings of jealousy, anger or perceived slights can take on pathological proportions.
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