Rouse s surviving son Kristoffer was 170 miles away and asleep when he received a text message from his father at 8.30am on Sunday confessing he had harmed others in the house.
Surviving relatives of a veteran dad who carried out a murder-suicide on his family say he struggled with mental health and “was adamant about controlling it himself”.
Stuart Rouse, 64, and his wife Christina, 63, were found dead inside their Vancouver, Washington, home on Sunday, alongside their two adult children Kristina and Melissa, and Stuart's brother in an apparent murder-suicide.