A passerby alerted authorities when noticing smoke coming from the Cooleemee, North Carolina home of Aschod Ewing-Meeks and Ashton Brown. Once the fire was extinguished, responders found them and their two children dead.
Yevhen Makarenko, Inna Makarenko, Oleh Makarenko and Vladyslav Makarenko are accused of beating a gay man so badly that he has been left permanently blinded. Police say that their victim been dating Oleh Makarenko before the attack.
In his divorce filing, Keith Papini said he "must act decisively to protect my children from the trauma caused by their mother and bring stability and calm to their lives."
Police say Brandon Taylor Cole-Skogstad killed his aunt, Riana Lou Barry, his uncle, Sean Barry, and his cousins, Sadie Lucille Barry and Shiway Elizabeth Barry, in their sleep, then killed himself.
Charlie Adelson has been arrested in connection with the 2014 murder-for-hire shooting of Dan Markel, his ex-brother-in-law who had been a law professor at Florida State University.
Although Duluth Police have yet to identify the five people who died in the tragedy, they said investigators believe they were all related to one another. A local station reported the suspected killer was among the dead.
Katrina Fouts was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and failure to report human remains in the death of her husband, David Fouts. Her friend, former police officer Terry Hopkins, had also been charged but died two months before his trial.