Murder for hire...blog 6 pt2

I actually read the same story but from two different articles. What surprised me was the press came up with the topics for the same story, and how one article was three pages and the other was a mere half of page covering the exact same thing. The first article was “6 y/o in Minnesota find parents, sitter dead” (http://news.yahoo.com/6-old-minnesota-finds-parents-sitter-dead-221337825.html) and the second article, “Oakdale deaths are double murder suicide” (http://www.startribune.com/local/east/129996443.html). As stated in the first article when reading it I thought wow! , what puzzled me was the fact that one article(yahoo news) was unclear if the other 2 siblings were home and the other article (star tribune) states that the 3 y/o  was in the home when the shooting occurred while the other son was outside when the sister discovered the bodies. Now in my opinion how is it that both young boys are at the home when this happens, one allegedly in the home at the time the murders took place, but they wait until the sister arrives and the bodies are discovered by her. Why didn’t the boys run for help? Why did it take for the sister to come home and say they were dead before the young boys realized it? Makes the reader think was this a murder/ suicide or a cover up? How do we know that 8 y/o didn’t have anything to do with it?

Also, the Star Tribune seemed to have stretched the story a little bit to me by adding more details that gives the reading  a more in depth sight of what really happen, which doesn’t seem to make since.  Could it been that the they wanted people to think that possibly the 8 y/o could have done this, or because this was such a nice family have the readers feel sorry for them and the children?

How anyone could began to see this as something of the norm, not unless they live in an area where something like this happens all the time. Three children, one of whom was in the house when the murder/suicide occurred are far from the norm. These kids are going to have psychological problems for the rest of their lives.