Dad murders 5-year-old son, kills mom, then commits suicide in high speed chase (Redmond, Oregon)

Are these detectives serious? They're "not sure" which parent murdered the 5-year-old boy, whose body was found in the home? Could it have been the mom, who was shot in the back of the head? Not outside an Agatha Christie novel, folks. More likely it was the daddy, DAVID STEWART, who obviously murdered the mother by shooting her point blank in the back of the skull, before leading the police on a high-speed chase (Daddy managed to kill himself when he crashed the car into a concrete barrier).  Just another example of (deliberate?) confusion being created when it comes to daddy violence.

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Wash. State Murder-Suicide Has Roots In Redmond
High-Speed Police Chase Ends In TragedyBy Mackenzie Wilson, KTVZ.COM
POSTED: 6:28 pm PDT April 7, 2011
UPDATED: 6:42 pm PDT April 7, 2011

REDMOND, Ore. -- What started as a high-speed chase in Washington state ends in a triple-tragedy Tuesday. A mother of two shot to death. Her husband, an army veteran deployed twice to Iraq, dead next to her. Their son found killed in their home.

Police said a mother and father, originally from Redmond, were found dead after an early-morning police chase Tuesday. Their 5-year-old son, Jordan Stewart, was found at the family's Washington state home, suffocated with a plastic bag. The boy had bruises on him, and police called it a violent killing.

Police said 38-year-old David Stewart was behind the wheel during the police pursuit on Interstate 5. Officials said Stewart slammed into the concrete barrier after about 10 miles. When the car came to a rest, police say Stewart shot and killed himself.

Medics found his wife, 38-year-old Kristy Sampels, in the passenger seat with a gunshot to the back of her head.

Hours later, detectives found the couple's son dead in their Spanaway, Wash., home. Sampels' 10-year-old daughter was found safe with her biological father in Redmond.

"Something did happen, and of course I can't say what because I don't know," Sampel's family friend, Sue Yaw, said Thursday. "I just don't know."

Officials said Kristy Sampels died at the scene of this crash from a gunshot wound to the back of her head. Her body was emaciate -- a far cry from the healthy and happy nurse many here on the High Desert recall.

"The Kristy that I knew as a mentor, she loved the other nurses they loved her, there was a good rapport," Yaw said. "And she was outgoing."

Sampels worked at Mountain View hospital in Madras for five years before moving to Washington. Yaw said Sampels was a devoted mother, and little Jordan's death is beyond words.

"She took wonderful care of her children, and she tried to work and not use childcare," Yaw said. "So she would sacrifice her own sleep to try and take care of Jordan."

Adding to the disturbing nature of the family's deaths was what police found inside their home: Christmas decorations still up four months later, and trash all over the floor.

Sampels' murder leaves behind her 10-year-old daughter, and more questions than answers.

"We're trying to solve, it and we're coming up with the same thing you are, nothing," Yaw said. "Something went wrong."

Investigators have been trying to make sense of the gruesome events. Detectives say 5-year-old Jordan Stewart had been dead for at least 24 hours when they found him. They believe one of the parents killed the boy, but at this point, they're not sure which one.