(ENTRY HAS BEEN UPDATED AND BUMPED. ORIGINALLY WRITTEN 12/26/07, POSTED AT 11:40 P.M. ET.)
A quiet Christmas Eve at a rural Carnation, Washington homestead was rent by gunfire. The victims were Boeing engineer Wayne S. Anderson, wife Judy, oldest son Scott Anderson, age 32, his wife Erica, and two unnamed children, ages 6 and 3.
A co-worker of Judy Anderson's from the Carnation post office was concerned early Wednesday because the typically reliable woman had not shown up for work. Judy's colleague traveled out to the Anderson residence on 346th Ave NE in Carnation to see if everything was OK. The Andersons' forested 11 acres held only death.
The Seattle Times reported Wayne and Judy Anderson's oldest daughter, Michele Anderson, age 29, had been arrested in connection with the murders. Also arrested was Joseph McEnroe, said to be Anderson's boyfriend. King County sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart said Anderson and McEnroe showed up at the crime scene, but he did not think they were there to turn themselves in.
The Times also reported that a 911 call had come from the Anderson residence on Monday, but the caller hung up. Sheriff's deputies went to check out the call, but they encountered a locked gate and apparently decided there was no further need to investigate.
A Michele Kristen Anderson and Joseph Thomas McEnroe are currently being held in the Seattle Correctional Facility. Anderson and McEnroe are both being held for investigation into 6 counts of homicide. McEnroe was booked around 6 p.m. (PT) Wednesday, Anderson about an hour later.
This entry will be updated and revised.
UPDATE, 12:01 p.m. ET, 12/27/07
Speaking to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Michele Anderson's nephew Ben said the following: "She had a different way of thinking [...] My grandparents had a lot of money. She had lived on the property rent-free her whole life, and they were just trying to help her out."
A spoiled child, possibly a narcissistic, even psychopathic personality, who felt entitled even though at 29 she was living with her family rent-free. Did Michele Anderson hook up with Joe McEnroe to form a classic cataclysm of narcissism, where two fundamentally messed-up people, not all that dangerous by themselves, become together a unit bent on mass murder?
That's probably a question for much, much later. It's still worth it to ask.
And what did her 6-year-old niece Olivia or 3-year-old nephew Nathan ever do to Michele Anderson?
UPDATE, 1:03 p.m. ET
A reader using the handle "BD" wrote the following in the comments for this post:
The Seattle Times reported yesterday about the business Michele Anderson "tried to start" with her brother Scott, Pure Evil Customs (among other things -- the article is lengthy and worth the read). It was an auto-detailing business and had a website:
PureEvilCustoms.com (link goes to Web Archive file).
While the domain, which was registered to Michele Anderson, has expired, an Angelfire site still exists in association with the business:
http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/PureEvil/
Sources:
Yardley, William. "6 in Family Are Found Slain in Home Outside Seattle." New York Times, 27 Dec. 2007:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/us/27carnation.html.
Staff reports. "Suspect in Carnation slayings is related to victims, police say." Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/3yftqj.
McCarthy, Jane/AP reports. "Victims' daughter arrested in Christmas Eve killings." KING 5 News, Seattle, 26 Dec. 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/3cvbqa.
Gutierrez, Scott, Mulady, Kathy and Pulkkinen, Levi. "A family tragedy: Six dead, two arrested." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 27 Dec. 2007:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/344935_carnation27.html.
A quiet Christmas Eve at a rural Carnation, Washington homestead was rent by gunfire. The victims were Boeing engineer Wayne S. Anderson, wife Judy, oldest son Scott Anderson, age 32, his wife Erica, and two unnamed children, ages 6 and 3.
A co-worker of Judy Anderson's from the Carnation post office was concerned early Wednesday because the typically reliable woman had not shown up for work. Judy's colleague traveled out to the Anderson residence on 346th Ave NE in Carnation to see if everything was OK. The Andersons' forested 11 acres held only death.
The Seattle Times reported Wayne and Judy Anderson's oldest daughter, Michele Anderson, age 29, had been arrested in connection with the murders. Also arrested was Joseph McEnroe, said to be Anderson's boyfriend. King County sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart said Anderson and McEnroe showed up at the crime scene, but he did not think they were there to turn themselves in.
The Times also reported that a 911 call had come from the Anderson residence on Monday, but the caller hung up. Sheriff's deputies went to check out the call, but they encountered a locked gate and apparently decided there was no further need to investigate.
A Michele Kristen Anderson and Joseph Thomas McEnroe are currently being held in the Seattle Correctional Facility. Anderson and McEnroe are both being held for investigation into 6 counts of homicide. McEnroe was booked around 6 p.m. (PT) Wednesday, Anderson about an hour later.
This entry will be updated and revised.
UPDATE, 12:01 p.m. ET, 12/27/07
Speaking to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Michele Anderson's nephew Ben said the following: "She had a different way of thinking [...] My grandparents had a lot of money. She had lived on the property rent-free her whole life, and they were just trying to help her out."
A spoiled child, possibly a narcissistic, even psychopathic personality, who felt entitled even though at 29 she was living with her family rent-free. Did Michele Anderson hook up with Joe McEnroe to form a classic cataclysm of narcissism, where two fundamentally messed-up people, not all that dangerous by themselves, become together a unit bent on mass murder?
That's probably a question for much, much later. It's still worth it to ask.
And what did her 6-year-old niece Olivia or 3-year-old nephew Nathan ever do to Michele Anderson?
UPDATE, 1:03 p.m. ET
A reader using the handle "BD" wrote the following in the comments for this post:
There aren't too many 29 yr old Michele Andersons in that small town - I grew up there and I'm certain I went to school with her. If she's the Michele Anderson I think she is, I don't believe she was into drugs during high school. She was a bit of a social outcast - a little insecure and introverted but otherwise nice and friendly with an infectious, goofy laugh. Very good with a pencil and paint brush, I remember she'd draw dragons and such with great, intricate detail in our senior year drawing and painting class. She was very imaginative and we'd compare projects often in that class [...] I'm hoping this isn't the Michele Anderson that I'm almost positive it is. Her living situation was the Carnation-rut some people there never avoided - sometimes you gotta get out of that town for a while, find yourself, and then come back and enjoy it with a different perspective.UPDATE, 12/28/07
The Seattle Times reported yesterday about the business Michele Anderson "tried to start" with her brother Scott, Pure Evil Customs (among other things -- the article is lengthy and worth the read). It was an auto-detailing business and had a website:
PureEvilCustoms.com (link goes to Web Archive file).
While the domain, which was registered to Michele Anderson, has expired, an Angelfire site still exists in association with the business:
http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/PureEvil/
Sources:
Yardley, William. "6 in Family Are Found Slain in Home Outside Seattle." New York Times, 27 Dec. 2007:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/us/27carnation.html.
Staff reports. "Suspect in Carnation slayings is related to victims, police say." Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/3yftqj.
McCarthy, Jane/AP reports. "Victims' daughter arrested in Christmas Eve killings." KING 5 News, Seattle, 26 Dec. 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/3cvbqa.
Gutierrez, Scott, Mulady, Kathy and Pulkkinen, Levi. "A family tragedy: Six dead, two arrested." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 27 Dec. 2007:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/344935_carnation27.html.
