Couple found shot to death in Columbus, young kids and dog in home unharmed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My thought was the owner of the practice might be involved but really, who knows?

I agree.. at the very least someone familiar with the house and area. No forced entry it's not an area you'd leave doors unlocked. No reports of dog barking. No reports of any theft from the home. The attack seemed to be primarily focused on the dentist.
The quick call.
Why call the police first versus just running over to the house?
Then when no answer ask for a wellness check?
Only to come back and check because they knew the kids were unsupervised and could be hurt.

"The dog that didn't bark."

[Anonymous]

Now they're saying someone called 911 to the home for a domestic incident prior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why this is national news. But I suspect the guy who first called 911. Would YOU call 911 when a colleague didn't show up for work? How bizarre to assume they needed a welfare check.

What? I wait on tables. My co-workers know that if I don't show up or call, I'm held hostage, super sick, locked up, or dead.

[Anonymous]

Beyond the staff needing to deal with a bunch of patients showing up for appointments with no dentist in the office to treat them, I don’t judge any lay person for not wanting to be the person who finds whatever has caused the dentist to be a no show. There are enough stories in the news on a regular basis of family annihilations or even family wiped out by carbon monoxide poisoning for anyone to be hesitant to be the welfare checker. The fact that nobody from the office wanted to do the initial check would no raise suspicion in me, and I am a very suspicious-natured former prosecutor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read about this earlier today ... something sounds so fishy. I feel so terrible for the kids.

Apparently some people are commenting that her ex is a prime suspect

Her ex is a vascular surgeon and the divorce went through in a matter of months, so does not sound too contentious.

The neighborhood they live in is not great and there have been several residential burglaries in the immediate area recently, I think maybe a robbery gone wrong?

I lived on 4th Street in Columbus just up from this part of the neighborhood in 2019 and 2020. Yes, it is block to block when it comes to safety, but the people who live there are active and engaged. There is a vibrant food/coffee/drink culture right there. It butts up right to OSU. Some of this is college housing. Some new families, some singles, and some folks who need a bit more help. It is being gentrified. This is walkable to downtown or a short bus ride or drive away.

Yes, it has some city problems, but the whole Columbus area is a very different scene than the District of Columbia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why this is national news. But I suspect the guy who first called 911. Would YOU call 911 when a colleague didn't show up for work? How bizarre to assume they needed a welfare check.

What? I wait on tables. My co-workers know that if I don't show up or call, I'm held hostage, super sick, locked up, or dead.

This. I can't stay sick in bed for a whole day without texting one of my roommates that I'm still alive. If I come in late for work, it's probably a hostage situation, like pp said.

[Anonymous]

A lot of families don't even report their own family members missing that fast. He worked over an hour ocmmute from home. They assume something came up, they check with friends and others, there could be an accident, held up in traffic, phone died, they call around etc. And for the police to go immediately to an 'employee didn't show up for work on time' call is also unusual.

I think calling 911 and sending police to the house within an hour and the police going immediately is unusual and suspicious. I think it means that his work knew something we don't know. His office opened at 8:00 and the first 911 call was made at 8:58. The coworkers were already on route to his house by then (google maps says 1 hour and 15 minute drive) and made the second call from the house at 10:03 after seeing his body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why this is national news. But I suspect the guy who first called 911. Would YOU call 911 when a colleague didn't show up for work? How bizarre to assume they needed a welfare check.

What? I wait on tables. My co-workers know that if I don't show up or call, I'm held hostage, super sick, locked up, or dead.

+1

[Anonymous]

The no weapon thing is weird unless someone could have pocketed it to save reputations. Not harming the dog and kids sounds like murder suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so very sad. Hopefully there will be an arrest soon.

https://people.com/frantic-911-calls-children-crying-inside-dentist-wife-bodies-found-11878500

Probably related to drugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so very sad. Hopefully there will be an arrest soon.

https://people.com/frantic-911-calls-children-crying-inside-dentist-wife-bodies-found-11878500

Probably related to drugs.

Or loan sharks. Some kind of business deal gone bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of families don't even report their own family members missing that fast. He worked over an hour ocmmute from home. They assume something came up, they check with friends and others, there could be an accident, held up in traffic, phone died, they call around etc. And for the police to go immediately to an 'employee didn't show up for work on time' call is also unusual.

I think calling 911 and sending police to the house within an hour and the police going immediately is unusual and suspicious. I think it means that his work knew something we don't know. His office opened at 8:00 and the first 911 call was made at 8:58. The coworkers were already on route to his house by then (google maps says 1 hour and 15 minute drive) and made the second call from the house at 10:03 after seeing his body.

It isn’t unusual at all. Also with first patient scheduled at 8, he more likely would’ve been due at the office anywhere from 7:15-7:45 or so. A lot of offices have a brief morning meeting before the schedule begins (the dentist would not typically stroll in at 7:55 for an 8:00 patient- especially without calling to give the staff a quick heads up). They were likely already calling him by 8:00, and probably started calling his spouse pretty shortly thereafter after getting no response. It really isn’t the type of job where someone is just randomly late. Or ever late at all. If he is late and not answering his phone, & his spouse isn’t answering hers either, something bad has very likely happened.

By the time they called the police and started the drive to his home, he’d been missing for about an hour. Long enough for them to call around, and long enough that he or his wife should’ve responded by then.

That said, they were probably more worried about an auto or household accident- not a murder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of families don't even report their own family members missing that fast. He worked over an hour ocmmute from home. They assume something came up, they check with friends and others, there could be an accident, held up in traffic, phone died, they call around etc. And for the police to go immediately to an 'employee didn't show up for work on time' call is also unusual.

I think calling 911 and sending police to the house within an hour and the police going immediately is unusual and suspicious. I think it means that his work knew something we don't know. His office opened at 8:00 and the first 911 call was made at 8:58. The coworkers were already on route to his house by then (google maps says 1 hour and 15 minute drive) and made the second call from the house at 10:03 after seeing his body.

It isn’t unusual at all. Also with first patient scheduled at 8, he more likely would’ve been due at the office anywhere from 7:15-7:45 or so. A lot of offices have a brief morning meeting before the schedule begins (the dentist would not typically stroll in at 7:55 for an 8:00 patient- especially without calling to give the staff a quick heads up). They were likely already calling him by 8:00, and probably started calling his spouse pretty shortly thereafter after getting no response. It really isn’t the type of job where someone is just randomly late. Or ever late at all. If he is late and not answering his phone, & his spouse isn’t answering hers either, something bad has very likely happened.

By the time they called the police and started the drive to his home, he’d been missing for about an hour. Long enough for them to call around, and long enough that he or his wife should’ve responded by then.

That said, they were probably more worried about an auto or household accident- not a murder.

This. It may be workplace dependent (it's not really happening in big corporate institutions where no one tracks your comings and goings, or there's a sort of show up by 10am culture) but smaller places where you're sort of "like family" - yes. I did not call the cops but did send a coworker out for a welfare check one time when a coworker was 2 hours late and we had not heard from them at all. in this day and age most people send a quick text or call if they are routinely on time but running late.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are killed all the time. Is there some reason why this murder of this couple in — OHIO — is worthy of discussion here? It’s so weird.

What topics are worthy of discussion here?

They usually don’t involve murders of random people hundreds of miles away. They tend to be DC-related or topical per threads.

Yes, though people on this board can relate to being the wife. Of a dentist. With little kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now they're saying someone called 911 to the home for a domestic incident prior.

Now they are saying the voice is from a very young person, likely the babysitter