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2006/1/3

When Tragedy Strikes We As American's All Loose

@ 04:46 PM (46 months, 24 days ago)

A beautiful family, three wonderful young children, their father ends their life tragically.  He was a former law enforment officer and a country prosecutor.  This was a "typica"l american family killed in May of 2005.  For all the families either in law enforcement or living with violence, please get help.  If your a family member or a friend and you know someone in danger, support them, offer them assistance guidence.  Don't judge them, don't turn your back on that person, offer support so they can leave their violent relationship.  If you don't, the next time you may see them will be when you visit their grave.  Domestic Violence is a serious crime and help is available.  Please contact the National domestic violence hotline at 1-866-799-SAFE.  The services are free an confidential.  You may just safe a life.  Susan Murphy Milano  http://www.movingoutmovingon.com

Below are pictures of lives taken away too quickly. 

Five hearses. The two youngest shared a coffin.
(He planned it.)

McGowan Family
Authorities believe that David McGowan, a 13-year law enforcement veteran in the Coachella Valley, shot and killed his family in a gruesome murder-suicide at his home in Garner Valley.

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McGowan family remembered
Siblings Chase McGowan, 14, Paige McGowan, 10, and Rayne McGowan, 8, loved the outdoors, horses, motorcycles and their big brother. “They were great kids,” brother Shane Kibbee said. The three were killed by their father May 10 in their Mountain Center home, police say.

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Siblings Chase McGowan, 14, Paige McGowan, 10, and Rayne McGowan, 8, loved the outdoors, horses, motorcycles and their big brother. “They were great kids,” brother Shane Kibbee said. The three were killed by their father May 10 in their Mountain Center home, police say.

SIX DEAD

Police have confirmed the bodies at the scene are those of:
  • David McGowan, 44, investigator for the Riverside County District Attorney’s office and foprmer Desert Hot Springs and Cathedral City police officer.
  • His wife, Karen McGowan, 42, a retired Cathedral City firefighter.
  • His three children, Chase McGowan, 14; Paige McGowan, 10; Rayne McGowan 8.
  • and his mother Angelia McGowan, 75
    Source: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department

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    Family and friends of the McGowan family embrace Thursday as the hearses begin to take the family members to their final resting spots at an undisclosed location. <b>Go online for more photos of the service.</b>Mourners remember slain McGowan family
    A brass bell tolled a final goodbye for Karen McGowan.

    Karen McGowan celebrates son Shane Kibbee’s 2001 graduation from Anza High School. In his first interview since the May 10 shooting of his mother and three siblings by his step-father, Kibbee described his mom as his best friend. “She was the most athletic, humble, creative and special person I’ve ever known,” he said.Few answers; lots of love
    Eight days ago, David John McGowan - the man who married Karen Lorraine Leonesio 14 years ago in a simple Idyllwild wedding and promised to love her forever - ended her life.

    Services set for slain McGowans
    Visitation for the McGowan family of Mountain Center is scheduled for Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Palm Springs Mortuary, 69-855 E. Ramon Road in Cathedral City.

    Guliana Terraciano (left) and Jennifer Larrison, both nieces of Karen McGowan, look Friday at the mementos left by well-wishers in front of the home where the McGowan family was murdered.In remembrance: The McGowan family
    Her voice trembling, she paused. A few seconds passed before she mustered enough strength to speak again. "Her piercing blue eyes.

    Karen and David McGowanPolice: Finances not a motive in deaths
    Relatives and friends of Karen McGowan are reeling from the pain of a brutal murder-suicide that took the lives of six people early Tuesday.

    Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle answers questions about the McGowan case in a press conference in Riverside on Wednesday. David McGowan (cq), wife Karen, three children Chase, Paige, Rayne and David's mother, Angelina, were all found dead in their home in Pine Meadow early Tuesday morning.Sheriff: ‘He planned it’
    The man authorities say was behind one of the largest mass killings in Riverside County's history left behind bloody footprints, lyrics to a pop song and little else to indicate...

    Finances, depression often issues for 'family annihilators'
    WASHINGTON - There was little indication that David McGowan was likely to kill his family, but that is not unusual in cases of murder-suicides, experts said Wednesday.

    Investigators confirm murder-suicide
    Song lyrics left near a computer in the Garner Valley home where authorities say David McGowan shot and killed five members of his family before killing himself are the closest he...