The Rise In Familial Killings Is Troubling

It’s still obviously a small percentage of crime, but troubling as regards social fabric.

Just this past week, we had two major examples of this.

First up, in Utah, Michael Haight (42) killed his wife, his mother-in-law, and his five kids. His wife had filed for divorce on December 21st, apparently, and he was served sometime around December 27th. Bunch of details here. Haight was an insurance agent with AllState in Cedar City — that’s the “largest” close city to Enoch, where they lived — but apparently he had quit his job in the past week, probably to prepare for this horror.

Here’s a few things to pull out from this case before we get to the bigger picture.

If you look at the wife’s Facebook, she changed her profile picture on June 1, 2022. That’s the sixth month of the year, right? So about five months before she filed. Here was the new profile pic:

It makes you wonder what happened in those five months to cause the divorce filing. Obviously the easy speculations are “found him with a man” or “was doing something bad with the kids,” but…