“Everyone in this room is alive because of good ole Joe and Delaney over there.” A videotape of Joe and Delaney Saradotchi’s Christmas party with their children plays in the background. The Saradotchi couple had three children, Jenny (aged 7), Henry (aged 5), and Natalia (aged 3). A couple more lines of dialogue plays and it cuts to where Delaney and Jenny are out of frame. Joe is talking about how he, Henry, and Natalia are playing horse outside. And then…. Then…. I remind the tape to a few seconds back. You can hear a muffled scream. And it cuts

Then it shows Delaney talking to the camera about how she’s making Christmas dinner in the kitchen that’s painted an off-white, with white tiles. Delaney talks with her hands. Quickly she moves her hands to show the palm of her hand, showing a blood stain. I pause the video realizing that there is blood all over her. In her hair, on her apron, on her shirt, on her face, in her fingernails. And then I move my eyes to look at the pause a see… a hand… laying there, lifeless. Mortified I fast forward, but to my horror. It just shows me the brutal murder of their other two children. The torture and agony they must have felt as they died. It later shows the parents killing themselves by shooting each other.

I look at the family photos and think

“Everyone in this photo is dead because of Joe and Delaney Saradotchi”