Two women and three girls found dead in Arkansas home

[Omaha Steve]

Source: The Guardian-AP

Authorities say the five people were all related and are treating the deaths as suspected homicides


Two women and three girls have been found dead in a home in north-west Arkansas in a suspected multiple homicide.

Deputies responded to a call at around 5pm on Friday and found the five people dead in a home in Atkins about 65 miles (105 kilometres) north-west of Little Rock, Pope County sheriff Shane Jones said in a statement. The dead were between 8 and 50 years old and are all believed to have been related, he said.

Jones said during a news conference on Saturday that the suspect was believed to be among the dead, ABC news reported.

“It’s rare anywhere,” Jones said of the case. “We just need to pray for a family that’s just been devastated.”


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/27/two-women-and-three-girls-found-dead-in-arkansas-home

[Yeehah]

1. An important news story in any civilized country

Just another day in gun-crazy USA.

http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/regional_news/article_f88e549a-4791-11eb-9dda-538aa3c8bcbb.html

[Ford_Prefect]

2. A more complete report can be found at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in Little Rock.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/dec/27/2-adults-3-children-found-slain/

ATKINS -- Five people, including three children, were found dead late Christmas Day at a home in a rural area near Atkins, Pope County Sheriff Shane Jones said Saturday afternoon.

The female victims ranged in age from 8 to 50, Jones said at a 1:30 p.m. news conference in Russellville. He described the case as "domestic-related."
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"At this time, we believe this is an isolated incident and do not feel that there is any continued danger to the local public," Jones said Saturday afternoon.

Authorities were called just after 5 p.m. Friday to the home in the 5100 block of Pine Ridge Road, after a family member discovered the bodies, Jones said.
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Atkins is a small town that for years was sustained in large part by the Atkins Pickle Co., which meant jobs and a bit of culinary recognition until the plant closed in 2002, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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"It's just a bad thing -- a bad thing to happen," said Wanda Harris, a neighbor who lives down the two-lane, paved road from where the killings occurred.

Homes in that part of Pope County are separated by small patches of woods. As with many of the houses in that area, the one-story home where Friday's slayings occurred sits at the end of a long driveway.

One neighbor said Saturday afternoon that she was lying in bed and heard gunshots, "pop, pop, pop," but in the rural area, the sound of gunshots is not uncommon.

I remember the pickles from when I was a child in Fayetteville. I also remember the story of the plant closing and what that meant to the town. I can only guess at the kind of despair that made this happen.

[58Sunliner]

5. Sorry but despair didn't make this happen.

Women and children are brutally murdered by a murderer. That is a symptom of a society that says women and children are disposable. Seen it way too many times.

[cannabis_flower]

9. The story said ...

The murderer was one of the dead. They were all female. I don’t any kind of misogyny was the motive.

[58Sunliner]

11. Does not matter if killer was female. It is much rarer of course.

Women grow up with the same messaging.

[Progressive Jones]

3. Isn't "Rural America" supposed to be some kind of wonderous "Utopia"? nt

[czarjak]

16. As long as outsiders stay out.

[alphafemale]

4. Horrible

It is so disturbing when people slaughter their entire families.

I wonder what a horror those kids lives were before the final act.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Same county where at Christmas in 1987, Gene Simmons murdered 16 people.

14 were family members.

[Dan]

7. Never heard of him, looked him up - wow.

[Danmel]

8. I just saw a show on Discovery ID

About that case. Sick.

[cannabis_flower]

10. Nope...

This was in Lincoln County. Simmons was in Pope County.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Atkins is in Pope County.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/women-girls-found-dead-arkansas-home-apparent-homicide/story?id=74918267
Police reported to the scene on Friday night after a family member visited the home in Atkins, Arkansas, and found the five dead bodies, according to the Pope County Sheriff's Office.

[cannabis_flower]

13. Ok. I got it backwards

Ronald Eugene Simmons was in Lincoln County. The point is still that they were not in the same county.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Nope. Both Dover (family home) and Russellville (job)

are in Pope County Arkansas.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gene_Simmons

He was executed in Lincoln County, where Cummins is located. All Arkansas executions take place there.

[cannabis_flower]

15. I stand corrected!