In October 1997, Ronald Fluke decided that his wife and two girls would be better off dead than living with the shame of having a father with a failed business. He would use a hatchet and a gun to murder his family, then calmly turn himself in to the police.
This man was just one of many family annihilators that we have researched over the years, but you may have never heard of this one.
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