Police identify 4 dead in Md. hotel as NY family

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

By BEN NUCKOLS ? 1 hour ago

TOWSON, Md. (AP) ? Police have identified four people found dead in a hotel near Baltimore as members of a New York family.

Baltimore County Police say they're continuing to investigate the case as a murder-suicide.

The four people found dead Monday were 59-year-old William Parente, 58-year-old Betty Parente, 19-year-old Stephanie Parente and 11-year-old Catherine Parente, all of Garden City, N.Y., outside New York City.

Police have not said how the four are related and won't release their causes of death until autopsies are finished Tuesday.

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edit This happened in Towson, MD

[babylonsister]

1. How I hate these stories. Seems so bloody selfish to me. nt

[Sequoia]

2. Let's guess...dad loses job, goes whacky, kills his family.

[MADem]

4. That's how it's looking, precisely.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/21/maryland.hotel.killings/


Murder-suicide suspected in deaths of 4 found in hotel room

Story Highlights
Four were found dead Monday in a Sheraton Hotel room in Towson, Maryland

The case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, county police said Tuesday

Family of 4 ID'd Tuesday as William and Betty Parente, Stephanie, 19, Catherine, 11

No motive yet known for slaying of family, from Garden City, N.Y.

[L0oniX]

3. luv the avatar

[Jefferson23]

5. So many like this, more and more. I do wish their was a more direct

approach, give air time to hotlines etc for people, FREE mental health clinic assistance ads, SOMETHING pro active!!