And i yelled out, is anybody home? at that point, one of my siblings yelled out, charlie, come quick! mom and dad are playing a bad trick on us. i saw my brother and my sister, daniel and carmen, with my parent s bodies, and my heart it just felt like somebody had ripped my chest wide open and pulled my heart out. we tried to use the phone, it didn t work, so i took carmen and danny outside. and we stayed out in the front yard, and danny went next door to use a phone, called the police. when the first police officer pulled up, he came out to us and asked what was going on. i said, go inside the house. you ll see. he went inside, came back out, looked at me and said,
january 15, 1974 started out different. i asked my dad to take me to school early that day so that i could get an extra study hall in. my brother and sisters, danny and carmen, they went with me. joe drops those three older kids at school, and he returns back home and joins his wife, julie, in getting the two younger kids ready for school. they re doing typical stuff making school lunches, gathering backpacks, getting ready for julie to drop those kids off, when the unthinkable happens. singular: he goes into the house. he draws his gun. one of the first things that he does is cut the telephone cord, and then he tells them that he just wants their car and some money and if he can tie them up