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Monday, April 15, 2013  Police say three people whose bodies were found inside a Topeka home died in an apparent double murder-suicide.

Thursday, March 21, 2013  A southwest Missouri sheriff says the deaths of a husband and wife in a home north of Joplin appear to have been a murder-suicide.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013  Authorities believe a rural northeast Missouri man shot and killed his wife, then turned the gun on himself.

Monday, December 10, 2012  Dallas Cowboy Jerry Brown was killed in a car crash that had teammate Josh Brent behind the wheel

Wednesday, December 05, 2012  Story update: The NBC sportscaster said Tuesday that he wishes he had more time to talk.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Police say the Kansas City Chiefs had been providing counseling to linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend before he killed her and committed suicide over the weekend.

Monday, December 03, 2012  Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together by Thanksgiving, according to a friend.

Monday, December 03, 2012  Investigators are still searching for a motive to help explain why Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself. But a picture of the couple's relationship has begun to emerge.

Saturday, December 01, 2012  Authorities did not release a possible motive for the murder-suicide, though police said that Belcher and his girlfriend had been arguing recently. The two of them have a 3-month-old child.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012  The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a former southwest Missouri police officer shot and killed his wife and critically injured her mother before killing himself.

Thursday, September 06, 2012  A Missouri woman and her three young daughters have been found shot to death in a rural area south of St. Louis.

Saturday, May 19, 2012  Police in southeastern Missouri are investigating the deaths of two Arizona men as a murder-suicide.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012  The children ranged in age from 12 to 17.

Sunday, March 18, 2012  Authorities are investigating the killing of a woman and three children at a campground and resort in eastern Missouri as a possible triple-murder suicide.

Wednesday, March 07, 2012  Former Spanish teacher was fired earlier Tuesday before he returned to kill the school's headmistress and then kill himself.