Family members died one-by-one as part of planned suicide, police say

[JoeOtterbein]

York Dispatch

Aimee Ambrose
York Dispatch

The Daub family was found dead from gunshot wounds, lying in a straight line near their back porch the morning of Jan. 25, police said.

They'd killed themselves late the night before, on Jan. 24, as part of a plan that germinated with the daughter, Morgan Daub, and her mother, Deborah Daub. According to new details released Friday, the plan might have been in motion for months. The date of their deaths apparently aligned with a Bible verse.

James Daub, the father, apparently wasn’t ready to die, but ultimately decided to follow his family.

The investigation led by West Manchester Township police concluded Deborah shot and killed James while they were in the backyard that night. Morgan then shot and killed Deborah before shot and killed herself. Each family member was shot in the back of the head, the department said in a news release Friday.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Why religion is toxic.

[3Hotdogs]

4. What? Jesus saves most of the time. You're criticizing him because he failed this one time?

[Chainfire]

5. One failure? Is that over the last 2,000 years?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. One failure?

People doing terrible things to people because of their "religion" are constant and ongoing. Yeah, not everyone but even things like "I believe life begins at conception so no abortion, even if women die" are toxic and damaging.

[bahboo]

2. so Morgan shot herself in the back of the head?

nice trick for the religiously insane...

[callous taoboy]

3. That's a sad story.

Sounds pretty obvious that Morgan was descending into adult-onset schizophrenia. When I was a kid, my best friend / next door neighbor had a mental breakdown his freshman year of high school. His dad was a doctor, mom a nurse, and he had two older sisters and an older brother. One sister was anorexic, the brother was really aloof, never wore shoes at the house, would be out playing catch in the front yard in winter with no shoes on. I've thought often about that family, how whenever I'd go over there things just seemed "off" with the whole group. The dad confronted me one morning on my paper route (their house being my first toss). I had already stopped going over there for at least 5 years because it was just too weird. It was 4 a.m. and he emerged from a large bush on the corner of their house and began screaming at me that he knew that I was the one who had been cutting up his garden hose at night. Scared the shit out of me, and I had done no such thing to his hose. I quickly delivered my 150 or so papers and woke my dad up when I got home and told him what had happened. He called over there and chewed the doctor's ass out. Next morning, same damn thing: The doctor emerged from the bushes and said that he wanted to apologize and be good neighbors. I ran past him and tossed their paper and did my route. I never told my dad about the second encounter because I believe he might've beat the hell out of him. A few years later the doctor attempted suicide at the house. I don't know what ever happened to the kids.

[JoeOtterbein]

8. Wow! That is another sad story.

Like my Dad used to say, "you never know what is going on behind closed doors".

[Rhiannon12866]

7. In school, we had to learn the 10 Commandments. There was an important one prohibiting killing...

[JoeOtterbein]

9. I thought the stuff about being...

...royalty was really weird too!

[Rhiannon12866]

10. What I really don't get is these sanctimonious "religious" hypocrites

Who claim to be "pro-life," but support the death penalty and irresponsible gun ownership which has resulted in unprecedented mass shootings.