Arizona police: Mother, 2 teenage sons dead after apparent murder-suicide

October 8th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Feeling depressed on the day of Karva Chauth, a festival in which Hindu women fast for their husbands' long life, a young widow in this Punjab city killed her two minor sons and committed suicide, police said Thursday. Baljit Kaur, 32, gave poison to her two sons, aged 10 and six, and consumed it herself at her home in Dashmesh Nagar Wednesday night.

September 30th, 2009 Apparent NY suicide brings a tragedy full circleTARRYTOWN, N.Y. — The former prosecutor who handled the New York slaying of newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas says her daughter's apparent suicide 15 years later is the result of a "ripple effect." Jeanine Pirro (PEER'-oh) says the death last week of Anne Morell Petrillo was essentially the attack's third fatality.

September 14th, 2009 Mother kills daughter, self at nursing homeOAKLAND, Calif. — Police say a woman fatally shot her disabled daughter before taking her own life at an Oakland nursing home.

September 9th, 2009 Financier Finn Caspersen found dead in RIWESTERLY, R.I. — Finn M.W.

September 1st, 2009 Police: Standoff at Texas home ends with 3 deadGALVESTON, Texas — Police in Galveston, Texas say three people died in an apparent double-murder suicide after an eight-hour, overnight standoff with authorities. Galveston Police Lt.

August 1st, 2009 Navy: Sailor charged with murder committed suicideSAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy says a sailor charged with the murder of a seaman has committed suicide in the brig at Camp Pendleton.

July 27th, 2009 3 in Wyoming family found deadCHEYENNE, Wyo. — Police say a Cheyenne couple and their 2-year-old son are dead in an apparent homicide-suicide.

July 10th, 2009 Police: Minn. mom invoked Jackson ranch in slayingHASTINGS, Minn.

June 23rd, 2009 VANCOUVER - An elderly Indian man was arrested Monday in the city of Surrey near here for killing his two teenage stepsons and seriously injuring his much younger wife in a family shoot-out. Mahendra Singh Johal, 66, was produced in court for the murder of 17-year-old Amarjit Gill and 15-year-old Ranjit Gill and the attempted murder of his 35-year-old wife Sukhwinder Kaur (Johal) Sunday.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 70-year-old woman, who was living alone, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her south Delhi home Sunday evening, two days after she was suspected to have been murdered. Police said the deceased, Basanti's house was ransacked and a case of murder has been registered.

June 15th, 2009 Wash. murder charges for suspect in Ariz. deathsWENATCHEE, Wash.

June 9th, 2009 Sheriff: Michigan mother kills 2 boys, herselfDELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan sheriff says a Lansing-area woman apparently killed her two young sons before committing suicide.

May 14th, 2009 3 dead in apparent double murder-suicide in TexasLEAGUE CITY, Texas — Police say a couple and their son are dead after an apparent double murder-suicide in a Houston suburb. Authorities on Wednesday night found the bodies of Lewis Cantrell III, his father, Lewis Cantrell II, and stepmother, Gayle Cantrell.

May 6th, 2009 3 found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Calif.ORANGE, Calif. — A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday.

April 22nd, 2009 Soldier apparently killed self after failing testSAN ANTONIO — The military says a soldier who flunked out of combat medic training has been found dead in an apparent suicide at the Fort Sam Houston barracks. Spokesman Phil Reidinger at the base in Texas says Pfc.