August 7, 2025 • 18 mins
Season 22 : Family Annihilators Part 2
Michael Haight was an abusive husband and father, but instead of accepting his faults, he decided he would rather rot in hell.
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Michael Haight was an abusive husband and father, but instead of accepting his faults, he decided he would rather rot in hell.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When a woman in Enoch, Utah, was woken up by
loud popping sounds in the middle of the night, she
assumed they were fireworks. He was, after all, January fourth, then,
despite it being past the time it was legal to
still be using fireworks, he wasn't unusual for people to
skirt the rules. Shrugging it off as an annoyance. The
(00:21):
woman went back to sleep, not knowing the horror that
was happening in another house in that same neighborhood. This
is monsters. Michael Hate was born on January seventh, nineteen
(00:58):
eighty and Seattle, Washing where his father, Robin Hayde, had
been attending the University of Washington Dental School when Michael
was only an infant. His father graduated from dental school
and the family moved back to Robin and his wife,
Brenda's hometown of Cedar City, Utah, where Robin set up
a dental practice that he would go on to operate
(01:19):
for thirty seven years. Robin was actively involved in many
activities with his children, one of them being a leader
for the Boy Scout troope Michael was involved in all
the way up to Eagle Scout. Growing up, Michael played
sports and was involved in outdoor activities. After high school,
he spent a summer working at a processing plant in
(01:40):
Alaska before going on a mission to Brazil representing his
Latter Day Saints' Church. Eventually, he enrolled in business courses
at Southern Utah University, where he met a young woman
named Tasha Earl. Tasha Earl was born on January nineteenth,
nineteen eighty two, in Omaha, de brass Ziska. Her family
(02:01):
eventually moved over to Nevada, where Tasha graduated from high school.
She enrolled at Southern Utah University, eventually graduating with a
bachelor's degree in child development studies. Before that happened, though,
she and Michael got married at the Saint George Temple
on May sixteenth, two thousand and three. After they both
(02:22):
graduated from university, Michael became an insurance salesman for All
State and Tasha stayed home to take care of her
growing family. Between two thousand and five and twenty eighteen,
the Hates had five children. Their daughter, Macy, was born
in two thousand and five, and then another daughter, bry Lee,
was born in twenty ten. They had twins, a boy
(02:43):
named Anna and a daughter named Sienna in twenty fifteen,
and then one more son, Gavin, in twenty eighteen. From
all outside appearances, they seem like a very happy and
healthy family, but we all know that outside appearances are
oftentimes a facade. Even early on, Michael showed signs of
being overly controlling. It said that he was quite frugal,
(03:06):
making Tasha wash out plastic bags so they could be reused,
and even cutting baby wipes in half. I get wanting
to save money, especially when you only have one income,
but the fact that he would expect it to be
done or else Tasha got in trouble was really a
sign of more abusive control. Police later interviewed friends of
(03:26):
Tasha's who said she felt she couldn't live up to
someone who was redacted from the report. It was probably
a family member, but could have been a coworker or
even someone he had been in a relationship with the past.
That's only speculation, as the identity of the person is unknown.
Her friends said that there were serious boundary issues with
(03:47):
her and that unnamed person. On top of that, her
friend told authorities that they would regularly go to the
hate house to help her clean to ensure Michael didn't
yell at her when he got home. While they were there,
They said Tasha didn't like talking about her marital problems
because she was afraid Michael might have been recording them.
(04:07):
We know now that he was recording her at times
without her knowledge, using his cell phone while they were together.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm a little curious why you're so wanting me so
aggressiveated move out of hair too, you know, and not
let the system played out, and why you're feeling like
you have to get some motion to remove me from him.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Especially older to have mentioned that when you're here it
is more tense.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I kind of be a good husband for you, and
I'm sorry I have fallen short in ways.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There are points in the recording that it's reported that
she describes a time when Michael wouldn't let her drive
separately to a family member's house on Thanksgiving, which she
wanted to do because she didn't feel safe with him.
She tells him that those are deal breakers. The seventy
two minute recording was reviewed and it was determined that
Michael was not threatening anywhere in it. But that makes
(05:08):
sense since he's the one making the video. It would
be one thing if he was being secretly recorded. But
since he knows he's being recorded, because he's the one
recording violating his wife's privacy, he knows not to do
or say anything threatening. It's common behavior for a manipulative
person to do exactly this so they look better if
(05:30):
the footage is ever seen by someone. It was noted
that despite Michael not being threatening in the recording, his
computer search history showed that he had already done Internet
searches for things like would a neighbor hear a gunshot
in a garage? And if you hear a single gun
shot in your neighborhood at night, would you immediately recognize it?
(05:50):
As such, Michael's abuse wasn't limited to Tasha. In twenty twenty,
their oldest daughter, Macy, had filed a police report, aiming
that her father was becoming assaultive, that he had choked her,
and that she felt terrified that he was going to
hurt her. The police interviewed Michael and he said he
had never violently grabbed his daughter, and added quote, but
(06:13):
if he had done these things, it was not meant
to be an assault. It's either an assault or it's not, Michael.
You can't physically attack someone and have it be something else.
Macy had also texted a friend that read quote, yeah,
so my dad asked what he's done? So I reminded
him about all the insults and names he's called me,
(06:33):
and he played dumb. How can he not remember calling
his daughter a failure and a disappointment on her eighth birthday?
I hate him. At the time of the police report,
the officer who took the report declined pressing charges and
basically told him to calm down. There are reports that
Tasha agreed with that decision, saying she didn't want Michael
(06:54):
arrested and she hoped the officer talking to him would
be a wake up call. It was it. Macy contacted
the Department of Child and Family Services in January of
twenty twenty one and reported again that her father was
being abusive. She said that her father had gotten angry
while they were driving and swerved the car so hard
(07:15):
that she and her siblings had red marks on their
chests from the seat belt. She said that Michael had
slammed her head into the hard part of the couch
and would yell and berate all of the children. DCFS
did not reopen the case because they claimed Macy did
not disclose any harm or threat of harm, which is
weird because she absolutely did. But anyway, Macy filed yet
(07:40):
another report with DCFS in December of twenty twenty two,
and the report was marked as unaccepted because Macy was
just repeating the same things she had before. Still, an
agent had gone to the home on December nineteenth and
talked to Tasha, who described Michael as having been harsh
with the children, but she didn't want to to interview
(08:01):
him until after he was served with divorce papers. The
agent told Tasha to call the police if Michael became
violent in the future, but she would never have that chance.
Prior to that visit, everything had boiled over one day
when their daughter Briley, was messing around while they were
having a prayer session in the living room, and Michael
(08:21):
exploded and yelled that they had the worst, most disrespectful
kids ever, that it was all Tasha's fault and it
was because she was fat and ugly. Tasha would later
tell a friend that she realized at that moment that
none of the children reacted to Michael's outburst. They had
become so used to their father's abuse that this incident
didn't even phase them. She said she knew then that
(08:44):
she had to file for divorce. When the children learned
that their parents were getting divorced, people said they were happy.
Normally children are pretty disappointed to learn that their parents
planned to divorce, even when their parents fought a lot.
Not the Hate children, they were thrilled at the prospect
of being away from their father, as he caused them
(09:06):
so much stress. Both Masie and Briley told friends that
they were extremely happy that their mother was divorcing their father.
There were some immediate problems as Michael refused to move
out of the house. Even his own lawyer had recommended
he moved out of the house at the time, but
he wouldn't. He ended up sleeping on the floor in
a spare bedroom. He started withdrawing money from their banks,
(09:30):
and he removed all of the firearms from the house.
At some point, Tasha's mother, Gail Earl, was staying at
the Hate home to help facilitate the divorce. On top
of the impending divorce, at the end of twenty twenty two,
it seemed that Michael had gotten fired from his job
at All State. A client called and asked for him,
(09:51):
and he was told he no longer worked for the company.
When the client finally got in touch with Michael, he
was told that the agent had put in his notice
because he was going to become an independent agent. He said.
All State then fired him, citing improprieties in his books,
but Michael claimed that was only so they didn't have
to pay him his year end bonus. Another person told
(10:14):
police that Michael's claim was a very unlikely scenario in
the insurance world and that the story raised red flags. Also,
according to Tasha, he did receive that bonus check. She
had complained to a friend that Michael had only allowed
her to spend one hundred dollars on each child for
Christmas and did not contribute anything more himself. She said
(10:37):
she was angry because they had just received a sizable
check from all State. It's also strange because he continued
having an office there after this point. On December thirtieth,
Michael did an Internet search for terms that included how
loud is a nine millimeter, how loud is a forty millimeter?
What does a gunshot sound like? How loud out as
(11:00):
a gun shot in a house? Would a neighbor hear
a gun shot in the garage, and can you hear
a gun shot from inside a neighbor's house. He also
read a page on Cora where someone asked, quote, if
you heard a single gunshot in your neighborhood at night,
would you immediately recognize it as such? Would you either
(11:21):
way be alerted enough to call the police, or would
you chalk it up to just being another sound in
the night. Unfortunately, the family was unaware that Michael had
already decided that he was going to kill them. When
they attended church on New Year's Day, Tasha and the
kids wouldn't sit with Michael. That likely really sealed their fate,
(11:42):
because Michael was obsessed with what other people thought of him.
He couldn't stand the idea that people thought they were
anything but the perfect family. Having the entire church see
them sit separately, it would have been a hard blow
to Michael's ego. At about eleven am on January four,
twenty twenty three, police were called for a welfare check
(12:04):
when Tasha missed an appointment and was not answering calls.
Officers went to the house and reported that nobody answered
the door and it appeared that nobody was home, so
they left another welfare request came in at one fifty
pm by someone concerned with Michael's behavior over the previous
few weeks. The officers returned and reported the house was
(12:26):
secure and they couldn't see anything alarming through the windows.
They called the schools to see if any of the
kids were absent, and they were told that Briley was absent,
but they weren't able to make contact with anyone at
the other schools. Around three pm, Michael was reported missing
after not showing up for work and missing several meetings.
(12:47):
They also said he left some personal documents on his
desk that his coworkers thought were unusual. Finally, a family
member entered the house at three point fifty pm and
saw a body on a bed with blood, so they
backed out of the house and called the police. At
just after four pm, the police finally arrived and confirmed
(13:08):
they were dead bodies in the house. All of the
victims had died from gunshot wounds. In the master bedroom
there were the bodies of seventy eight year old Gail Earl,
forty year old Tasha Hate, and four year old Gavin Hate.
The rest of the victims were in their own rooms.
Seventeen year old Macy, twelve year old Briley, and seven
(13:30):
year old twins amon in Sienna. Michael was found in
the spare room in the basement with a self inflicted
gunshot wound to the head. Near Michael's body was a
note that read quote, I have worked my whole life
for the ideal of an eternal family. I have been
an honorable good man who has tried to do my
best to provide for my family. I've seen the texts
(13:54):
and emails, with all the backbiting and gossip about me
and my family. I cannot believe that God has allowed
the person who should be closest to me in the
world default find gossip and disparage me at every turn.
I have never seen someone who is so intent at
finding faults and others. I have tried helping, but it
generally backfires and I seem to always get blamed. I
(14:17):
would rather rot in hell than to put up with
another day of this manipulation and control over me. I've
been complained about every step of the way, that I
worked too much, put my church calling before my wife,
and on and on and on. She has been so
awful to me and my family for years, and I
have generally been patient trying to work through her issues
(14:38):
with my family, our kids, neighbors, ward members, and others
who don't make her the center of attention. This is
nonsense and I can't handle it for one more day.
We will not be a burden on society. I kept
asking for help and you wouldn't listen. Now let's break
this note down a little bit. Of course, Michael places
(15:01):
all the blame for his disgusting actions on Tasha. His
note has a tone that he had never done anything
wrong and his family just hated him for no reason.
He mentions Tasha had been constantly disparaging him, but it
sounds like she was only disparaging him from being a
controlling asshole. He mentions that she is intent on finding
(15:22):
faults and others, but again, she seems to only be
finding a fault in him being a controlling asshole. If
he would rather rot in hell than spend another day
with his family, he could have killed himself and done that,
but he took the rest of the family with them,
which only proved he was a selfish, controlling asshole. To
(15:42):
add insult to injury, after the deaths, an obituary appeared
online posted by an unknown source that described Michael as
a loving husband and father. It described him as always
making a point to spend time with his kids, you know,
in the years before he murdered them by shooting them
all in the head. The obituary was likely posted by
(16:04):
a family member, but it was eventually taken down. It
kind of explains why Michael became what he became. It
sounds like he came from a family who refused to
accept he had any faults, and he grew into a
person who couldn't accept that he had any faults. So
when his wife and children began crying out for help,
begging him to accept those faults and do something about them,
(16:26):
he just saw them as the enemy and murdered them
all like a monster. If you're the victim of domestic abuse,
please reach out to someone for help. Please talk to
your local shelter, call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at
one eight hundred seven nine ninth safe that's one eight
hundred seven nine nine seven two three three, or you
(16:46):
can go to the hotline dot org to chat with
someone online. If you're having feelings of harming yourself or
someone else, or even just need someone to talk to
Please contact your local mental health facility call nine one one,
or call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline by simply dialing
nine to eight eight in the United States, they're available
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, and
(17:07):
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might be facing. If you're a member of the LGBTQ
plus community and suffering from discrimination, depression, or are in
need of any support, please contact the LGBT National Hotline
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(17:28):
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When a woman in Enoch, Utah, was woken up by
loud popping sounds in the middle of the night, she
assumed they were fireworks. He was, after all, January fourth, then,
despite it being past the time it was legal to
still be using fireworks, he wasn't unusual for people to
skirt the rules. Shrugging it off as an annoyance. The
(00:21):
woman went back to sleep, not knowing the horror that
was happening in another house in that same neighborhood. This
is monsters. Michael Hate was born on January seventh, nineteen
(00:58):
eighty and Seattle, Washing where his father, Robin Hayde, had
been attending the University of Washington Dental School when Michael
was only an infant. His father graduated from dental school
and the family moved back to Robin and his wife,
Brenda's hometown of Cedar City, Utah, where Robin set up
a dental practice that he would go on to operate
(01:19):
for thirty seven years. Robin was actively involved in many
activities with his children, one of them being a leader
for the Boy Scout troope Michael was involved in all
the way up to Eagle Scout. Growing up, Michael played
sports and was involved in outdoor activities. After high school,
he spent a summer working at a processing plant in
(01:40):
Alaska before going on a mission to Brazil representing his
Latter Day Saints' Church. Eventually, he enrolled in business courses
at Southern Utah University, where he met a young woman
named Tasha Earl. Tasha Earl was born on January nineteenth,
nineteen eighty two, in Omaha, de brass Ziska. Her family
(02:01):
eventually moved over to Nevada, where Tasha graduated from high school.
She enrolled at Southern Utah University, eventually graduating with a
bachelor's degree in child development studies. Before that happened, though,
she and Michael got married at the Saint George Temple
on May sixteenth, two thousand and three. After they both
(02:22):
graduated from university, Michael became an insurance salesman for All
State and Tasha stayed home to take care of her
growing family. Between two thousand and five and twenty eighteen,
the Hates had five children. Their daughter, Macy, was born
in two thousand and five, and then another daughter, bry Lee,
was born in twenty ten. They had twins, a boy
(02:43):
named Anna and a daughter named Sienna in twenty fifteen,
and then one more son, Gavin, in twenty eighteen. From
all outside appearances, they seem like a very happy and
healthy family, but we all know that outside appearances are
oftentimes a facade. Even early on, Michael showed signs of
being overly controlling. It said that he was quite frugal,
(03:06):
making Tasha wash out plastic bags so they could be reused,
and even cutting baby wipes in half. I get wanting
to save money, especially when you only have one income,
but the fact that he would expect it to be
done or else Tasha got in trouble was really a
sign of more abusive control. Police later interviewed friends of
(03:26):
Tasha's who said she felt she couldn't live up to
someone who was redacted from the report. It was probably
a family member, but could have been a coworker or
even someone he had been in a relationship with the past.
That's only speculation, as the identity of the person is unknown.
Her friends said that there were serious boundary issues with
(03:47):
her and that unnamed person. On top of that, her
friend told authorities that they would regularly go to the
hate house to help her clean to ensure Michael didn't
yell at her when he got home. While they were there,
They said Tasha didn't like talking about her marital problems
because she was afraid Michael might have been recording them.
(04:07):
We know now that he was recording her at times
without her knowledge, using his cell phone while they were together.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm a little curious why you're so wanting me so
aggressiveated move out of hair too, you know, and not
let the system played out, and why you're feeling like
you have to get some motion to remove me from him.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Especially older to have mentioned that when you're here it
is more tense.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I kind of be a good husband for you, and
I'm sorry I have fallen short in ways.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There are points in the recording that it's reported that
she describes a time when Michael wouldn't let her drive
separately to a family member's house on Thanksgiving, which she
wanted to do because she didn't feel safe with him.
She tells him that those are deal breakers. The seventy
two minute recording was reviewed and it was determined that
Michael was not threatening anywhere in it. But that makes
(05:08):
sense since he's the one making the video. It would
be one thing if he was being secretly recorded. But
since he knows he's being recorded, because he's the one
recording violating his wife's privacy, he knows not to do
or say anything threatening. It's common behavior for a manipulative
person to do exactly this so they look better if
(05:30):
the footage is ever seen by someone. It was noted
that despite Michael not being threatening in the recording, his
computer search history showed that he had already done Internet
searches for things like would a neighbor hear a gunshot
in a garage? And if you hear a single gun
shot in your neighborhood at night, would you immediately recognize it?
(05:50):
As such, Michael's abuse wasn't limited to Tasha. In twenty twenty,
their oldest daughter, Macy, had filed a police report, aiming
that her father was becoming assaultive, that he had choked her,
and that she felt terrified that he was going to
hurt her. The police interviewed Michael and he said he
had never violently grabbed his daughter, and added quote, but
(06:13):
if he had done these things, it was not meant
to be an assault. It's either an assault or it's not, Michael.
You can't physically attack someone and have it be something else.
Macy had also texted a friend that read quote, yeah,
so my dad asked what he's done? So I reminded
him about all the insults and names he's called me,
(06:33):
and he played dumb. How can he not remember calling
his daughter a failure and a disappointment on her eighth birthday?
I hate him. At the time of the police report,
the officer who took the report declined pressing charges and
basically told him to calm down. There are reports that
Tasha agreed with that decision, saying she didn't want Michael
(06:54):
arrested and she hoped the officer talking to him would
be a wake up call. It was it. Macy contacted
the Department of Child and Family Services in January of
twenty twenty one and reported again that her father was
being abusive. She said that her father had gotten angry
while they were driving and swerved the car so hard
(07:15):
that she and her siblings had red marks on their
chests from the seat belt. She said that Michael had
slammed her head into the hard part of the couch
and would yell and berate all of the children. DCFS
did not reopen the case because they claimed Macy did
not disclose any harm or threat of harm, which is
weird because she absolutely did. But anyway, Macy filed yet
(07:40):
another report with DCFS in December of twenty twenty two,
and the report was marked as unaccepted because Macy was
just repeating the same things she had before. Still, an
agent had gone to the home on December nineteenth and
talked to Tasha, who described Michael as having been harsh
with the children, but she didn't want to to interview
(08:01):
him until after he was served with divorce papers. The
agent told Tasha to call the police if Michael became
violent in the future, but she would never have that chance.
Prior to that visit, everything had boiled over one day
when their daughter Briley, was messing around while they were
having a prayer session in the living room, and Michael
(08:21):
exploded and yelled that they had the worst, most disrespectful
kids ever, that it was all Tasha's fault and it
was because she was fat and ugly. Tasha would later
tell a friend that she realized at that moment that
none of the children reacted to Michael's outburst. They had
become so used to their father's abuse that this incident
didn't even phase them. She said she knew then that
(08:44):
she had to file for divorce. When the children learned
that their parents were getting divorced, people said they were happy.
Normally children are pretty disappointed to learn that their parents
planned to divorce, even when their parents fought a lot.
Not the Hate children, they were thrilled at the prospect
of being away from their father, as he caused them
(09:06):
so much stress. Both Masie and Briley told friends that
they were extremely happy that their mother was divorcing their father.
There were some immediate problems as Michael refused to move
out of the house. Even his own lawyer had recommended
he moved out of the house at the time, but
he wouldn't. He ended up sleeping on the floor in
a spare bedroom. He started withdrawing money from their banks,
(09:30):
and he removed all of the firearms from the house.
At some point, Tasha's mother, Gail Earl, was staying at
the Hate home to help facilitate the divorce. On top
of the impending divorce, at the end of twenty twenty two,
it seemed that Michael had gotten fired from his job
at All State. A client called and asked for him,
(09:51):
and he was told he no longer worked for the company.
When the client finally got in touch with Michael, he
was told that the agent had put in his notice
because he was going to become an independent agent. He said.
All State then fired him, citing improprieties in his books,
but Michael claimed that was only so they didn't have
to pay him his year end bonus. Another person told
(10:14):
police that Michael's claim was a very unlikely scenario in
the insurance world and that the story raised red flags. Also,
according to Tasha, he did receive that bonus check. She
had complained to a friend that Michael had only allowed
her to spend one hundred dollars on each child for
Christmas and did not contribute anything more himself. She said
(10:37):
she was angry because they had just received a sizable
check from all State. It's also strange because he continued
having an office there after this point. On December thirtieth,
Michael did an Internet search for terms that included how
loud is a nine millimeter, how loud is a forty millimeter?
What does a gunshot sound like? How loud out as
(11:00):
a gun shot in a house? Would a neighbor hear
a gun shot in the garage, and can you hear
a gun shot from inside a neighbor's house. He also
read a page on Cora where someone asked, quote, if
you heard a single gunshot in your neighborhood at night,
would you immediately recognize it as such? Would you either
(11:21):
way be alerted enough to call the police, or would
you chalk it up to just being another sound in
the night. Unfortunately, the family was unaware that Michael had
already decided that he was going to kill them. When
they attended church on New Year's Day, Tasha and the
kids wouldn't sit with Michael. That likely really sealed their fate,
(11:42):
because Michael was obsessed with what other people thought of him.
He couldn't stand the idea that people thought they were
anything but the perfect family. Having the entire church see
them sit separately, it would have been a hard blow
to Michael's ego. At about eleven am on January four,
twenty twenty three, police were called for a welfare check
(12:04):
when Tasha missed an appointment and was not answering calls.
Officers went to the house and reported that nobody answered
the door and it appeared that nobody was home, so
they left another welfare request came in at one fifty
pm by someone concerned with Michael's behavior over the previous
few weeks. The officers returned and reported the house was
(12:26):
secure and they couldn't see anything alarming through the windows.
They called the schools to see if any of the
kids were absent, and they were told that Briley was absent,
but they weren't able to make contact with anyone at
the other schools. Around three pm, Michael was reported missing
after not showing up for work and missing several meetings.
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They also said he left some personal documents on his
desk that his coworkers thought were unusual. Finally, a family
member entered the house at three point fifty pm and
saw a body on a bed with blood, so they
backed out of the house and called the police. At
just after four pm, the police finally arrived and confirmed
(13:08):
they were dead bodies in the house. All of the
victims had died from gunshot wounds. In the master bedroom
there were the bodies of seventy eight year old Gail Earl,
forty year old Tasha Hate, and four year old Gavin Hate.
The rest of the victims were in their own rooms.
Seventeen year old Macy, twelve year old Briley, and seven
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year old twins amon in Sienna. Michael was found in
the spare room in the basement with a self inflicted
gunshot wound to the head. Near Michael's body was a
note that read quote, I have worked my whole life
for the ideal of an eternal family. I have been
an honorable good man who has tried to do my
best to provide for my family. I've seen the texts
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and emails, with all the backbiting and gossip about me
and my family. I cannot believe that God has allowed
the person who should be closest to me in the
world default find gossip and disparage me at every turn.
I have never seen someone who is so intent at
finding faults and others. I have tried helping, but it
generally backfires and I seem to always get blamed. I
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would rather rot in hell than to put up with
another day of this manipulation and control over me. I've
been complained about every step of the way, that I
worked too much, put my church calling before my wife,
and on and on and on. She has been so
awful to me and my family for years, and I
have generally been patient trying to work through her issues
(14:38):
with my family, our kids, neighbors, ward members, and others
who don't make her the center of attention. This is
nonsense and I can't handle it for one more day.
We will not be a burden on society. I kept
asking for help and you wouldn't listen. Now let's break
this note down a little bit. Of course, Michael places
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all the blame for his disgusting actions on Tasha. His
note has a tone that he had never done anything
wrong and his family just hated him for no reason.
He mentions Tasha had been constantly disparaging him, but it
sounds like she was only disparaging him from being a
controlling asshole. He mentions that she is intent on finding
(15:22):
faults and others, but again, she seems to only be
finding a fault in him being a controlling asshole. If
he would rather rot in hell than spend another day
with his family, he could have killed himself and done that,
but he took the rest of the family with them,
which only proved he was a selfish, controlling asshole. To
(15:42):
add insult to injury, after the deaths, an obituary appeared
online posted by an unknown source that described Michael as
a loving husband and father. It described him as always
making a point to spend time with his kids, you know,
in the years before he murdered them by shooting them
all in the head. The obituary was likely posted by
(16:04):
a family member, but it was eventually taken down. It
kind of explains why Michael became what he became. It
sounds like he came from a family who refused to
accept he had any faults, and he grew into a
person who couldn't accept that he had any faults. So
when his wife and children began crying out for help,
begging him to accept those faults and do something about them,
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he just saw them as the enemy and murdered them
all like a monster. If you're the victim of domestic abuse,
please reach out to someone for help. Please talk to
your local shelter, call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at
one eight hundred seven nine ninth safe that's one eight
hundred seven nine nine seven two three three, or you
(16:46):
can go to the hotline dot org to chat with
someone online. If you're having feelings of harming yourself or
someone else, or even just need someone to talk to
Please contact your local mental health facility call nine one one,
or call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline by simply dialing
nine to eight eight in the United States, they're available
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, and
(17:07):
we'll talk to you about any mental health issue you
might be facing. If you're a member of the LGBTQ
plus community and suffering from discrimination, depression, or are in
need of any support, please contact the LGBT National Hotline
at one eight eight eight eight four three four five
six four, or go to LGBT Hotline dot org. Thanks
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so much for letting me tell you this story. If
you're a fan of true crime, you can subscribe to
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can check it out if you like interesting stories from
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It's available anywhere that you listen to podcasts. You can
(17:49):
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