Riley Matthew

American six-year-old homicide victim. When mail and papers piled up outside the house, neighbors of the Riley family called the police on 12 June 2000. Inside, they found the entire family, Paul, his wife Alicia and their two kids, six-year-old Matthew and two-year-old Erin, all dead of gunshot wounds. They were scattered in various rooms of the house, dead for some two days. Pauls body bore evidence of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the tragedy was considered murder-suicide. None of their friends, family or neighbors could imagine why this happened. Read less