What happened to this California family?

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09/02/2021 13:58

Subject: What happened to this California family?

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Anonymous wrote:I watch this thread count grow and am utterly bewildered.

Bewildered by the interest on this thread? This is case is truly fascinating. The circumstances are bizarre. There's no clear answer. Lots of speculation. Yes, families have been found dead together before, but this one is unique with the dog being dead too, the mom being found very close by, the dad in an upright position (how is that even possible?), the baby still in the carrier. All of it is very, very weird and I can see why this thread is as long as it is. I am beginning to believe the theory that the mom stayed to help the dad and finally succumbed to heat stroke as she made a last ditch effort to try to get the car, which explains why she didn't make it very far. The dog is still the outlier as has already been discussed at length before. I'm not buying the murder-suicide theory. There are easier ways to do that than to take your entire family hiking in extreme heat and wait until the end after an 8.5mile hike to poison everyone, including yourself.

Plus on top of all that, we get these truly confounding statements from law enforcement and forest officials. As from the Sierra National Forest order shutting down the area, citing "unknown hazards found in and near the Savage Lundy Trail." If these hazards are found, how can they be "unknown"? Is this a meteorite from outer space?

Or the sheriff's office (I think it was them) quoted as saying that this family was "well prepared" for the hike, AND, they think the family was hiking the full 8.5 mile loop. By definition, it is NOT safe for a hairy dog and a baby in a carrier to stay out that long in an unshaded area in heat that is anything approaching what it was that day.

You are making some assumptions there to crap on the parents....just wait for the facts FFS.

That was honestly not my intention. This criticism is directed at the sheriff's department. Because all three of these things cannot be true:

1. The family set off for a hike at approximately 8:00 in the morning, when temperatures were already exceeding 90 degrees.
2. The family completed most of an 8.5 mile hike.
3. The family was "well-prepared" for this hike.

I think it is entirely possible that there was some kind of accident, that they took the wrong trail by mistake, that the dog took off and they chased it, that they looked at an incorrect weather forecast, etc.... Even that there may have been some kind of foul play involving a third party. But I strongly take issue with the description "well prepared" to describe their readiness to take on an 8.5 mile hike, because there is NOTHING you can do to make a dog and a baby "well prepared" for an 8.5 mile hike in that heat.

I think PP has nailed it. This is more than just a hike that went awry. It was also poorly conceived and doesn’t make sense even if everything had gone right. Personally I’m more curious about the conception of the hike than what actually killed them, though we may never really know.

What was poorly conceived? You don't know their plans for that day.

The plan that LE refer to of hiking 8.5 miles in the heat that has been well established for that area on that day. I swear, you're all "only what LE says" and then as soon as someone quotes what LE says you disagree with it if it doesn't fit your preconception.