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Our other heinous multiple murder happened when I was a kid, and at that time, my future father-in-law was the city's District Attorney. Therefore, my wife has the case file on this one, too. It was the Seibold Murders.

In 1967, Eddie Seibold was a college student who was seeing two females at the same time. Besides the usual problem with that, the two females were related - mother and daughter. He was openly dating high school age Cathy Sinclair while carrying on a secret affair with her mother, Juanita. The mother was divorced, but it was still an awkward situation when the daughter found out. Both women decided that the only possible course of action was for both of them to stop seeing Eddie, and they broke off their relationships with him. Unfortunately, Eddie did not take it very well at all.

He hid in the bushes outside the Sinclair home one night and waited for neighborhood traffic to die down. While "Johnny Carson" was playing on TV, he burst into the Sinclair kitchen and encountered the mother, Juanita. After a brief shouting match with her, he fired his shotgun directly at her abdomen, stepped over her, and went looking for Cathy.

Inside the home were Cathy, her older sister Libba (who was wheelchair-bound), her younger sister Lynne, and a friend of Lynne's who was sleeping over that night, Mary Durant As soon as Cathy heard Eddie's voice, she ran and hid in a closet. The first person Eddie encountered after leaving the kitchen was Libba, trying to defend the rest of her home from her wheelchair. He viciously killed her right there (I can't remember if he shot her or stabbed her to death). Then, he went into the bedrooms looking for Cathy. Instead, he found Lynne and Mary huddled together under the covers in the bed, and he slaughtered both of them. He even decapitated one of the dolls in the room, and shot another doll elsewhere in the house (apparently in case they were all Cathy). After being unable to find Cathy, he finally exited the home and vanished.

Juanita Sinclair, although seriously wounded from a shotgun blast to the abdomen, was not dead. After faking death and waiting for Eddie to leave, she crawled out of the house and went to the neighbor's house to call for help. The entire rampage lasted only a few minutes, and left three girls dead. The two people Eddie Seibold had come specifically to kill, Juanita and Cathy, were the only ones to survive the slaughter.

The next day, our little town awoke to the news of an unspeakable triple murder, and a murderer on the loose. Nobody knew where he was, and I very clearly remember our parents "locking us down." NOBODY was allowed to go outside and play until Seibold was caught, which took a full week. He was finally caught in Florida (where he'd immediately fled), and my wife's father was the one who went down to accompany him back to Auburn.

Eddie was sentenced to death for the murders, but it was commuted to life when the death penalty was overturned in 1972. Now, he faces parole hearings every 5 years, and stands no chance to get out. The Durant family was particularly devastated, because their daughter was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They moved out of their large, corner lot home, and the house has oddly gone through dozens of owners ever since. It almost seems that as soon as someone moves in, they move right back out. Therefore, a type of ghost story has evolved concerning the Durant house - Mary's ghost wanders the house looking for her family who moved away. Although the Durant house had nothing to do with the murders, that's the house everyone says is haunted.

Fruce, it's always good to hear from a homie. I was still 6 when the Seibold murders happened, so you would be the same age as my sister, Renee. Unfortunately, I robbed the cradle when I married, so my wife doesn't have any reliable first-hand memories of the events. We also no longer have her dad's files anymore, as they were a casualty of the process of clearing out their old house. It would still be great to correspond with you some more about it, though.

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I think this is the best place for your story, SB. My own mother is 78, and if anything like that happened to her, I know EXACTLY what my father, my brother, my two sisters, my two brothers-in-law, my nephews, and at least a dozen male cousins and I would be doing right now. It wouldn't be pretty, but it would be effective. And permanent.

If familial retaliation is not an option, then you have to go to the police. I don't know about Canada, but in America, sexual abuse and domestic violence are two crimes that do not require someone to press charges. If it gets reported, the police are required to investigate, with or without the victim's help. I can't imagine what your grandmother is feeling right now, but pretending/hoping it will go away never works. You've got to do something now.

Please keep us posted.