Loretta Benaderet, a 76-year-old woman, died on September 4, 2014, in Casper, Wyoming, in a killing that was later described in public reporting as a murder-suicide carried out by her own son, David Benaderet. What emerged afterward was not the picture of a random act or an unsolved attack, but of a family tragedy that had been building for years, with later accounts describing a long history of dysfunction, mental illness, and fear inside the household.
In the way these cases are often
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