Killer son leaves chilling note on freezer storing his murdered parents’ remains before ‘murder suicide’ with girlfriend
A Washington man reportedly left a chilling note in the freezer where he kept the remains of his slain parents months before killing himself in a gruesome murder.
Shane Vosler, 33, is accused of fatally stabbing his parents, William, 68, and Eileen, 66, in July and stuffing their remains in a freezer in the garage of their Puyallup home.
As the months passed, neighbors became concerned, prompting the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office to conduct four different welfare checks in late December. according to KOMO.
When officers finally gained access to the home on New Year’s Eve, they found two notes on the leaking freezer that read “Time of death July 24 5:45 a.m.” and “Time of death July 24 3 p.m.,” according to police reports. obtained by KING 5 News.
Officers also found Shane’s girlfriend, Sue Bin Lee, 34, dead in an upstairs bedroom, lying on top of a bed, and Shane dead in the bathroom connected to the master bedroom.
All the bodies were in various states of decomposition. ABC 10 reports.
“Everyone in that home died at different times, with the son being the last to die,” sheriff’s spokesperson Carly Cappetto explained.
“The son and his girlfriend lived in that house for six months before this was discovered,” she said added to the Seattle Times.
Shane Vosler, 33, is accused of fatally stabbing his parents, William, 68, and Eileen, 66, in July
He allegedly put his parents’ bodies in a freezer in the garage of their Puyallup home
The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has since certain that William died of stab wounds to the chest and Eileen died of stab wounds to the chest and neck. William also suffered blunt force trauma.
Both Shane and Lee died of gunshot wounds to the head, with the medical examiner ruling Shane’s death a suicide.
But the medical examiner declined to classify Lee’s death as a suicide or homicide because it was unclear from the angle of the bullet whether she shot herself or was killed by her boyfriend, according to the Seattle Times.
Authorities have said they were first alerted to the house on December 23, when neighbors saw two trucks taking one of William’s trucks from the driveway.
The neighbors knew how much William cared about his vehicles and were concerned about the sight. They eventually contacted the local sheriff’s department.
But when officers arrived on the scene, they found no evidence of forced entry into the home and were required by law to leave the property.
They conducted two more welfare checks in the following days, after one of Shane’s friends reported online that Lee had posted on social media that she was “considering suicide with [Shane]in November.
Still, officers didn’t have enough evidence to prove anyone was dead or in danger in the house, and they were forced to leave.
Shane’s girlfriend, Sue Bin Lee, 34, was also found dead in an upstairs bedroom
However, instead of giving up, officers were able to make contact with William and Eileen’s two other sons, and were subsequently able to gain access to the home on December 29.
Less than a minute after one of the sons entered his parents’ home, he ran outside and said he saw a woman in a room covered in blood, KING 5 reports.
A deputy on scene also reported he “smelled a distinct odor of bodily decomposition” at the door of the home and called for backup.
Deputies eventually seized weapons, a cell phone and the notes from the freezer, with KING 5 reporting that other notes regarding the time of death were also recovered.
Officers also noticed dried blood under the closed bathroom door in the master bedroom, which had a single bullet hole.
The deputies were unable to fully open the bathroom door, but could still see a bullet and Shane’s body inside.
Officers eventually seized weapons, a mobile phone and banknotes from the freezer
Neighbors said they became concerned when William’s trucks were seized
Authorities now say they believe William and Eileen’s deaths went unnoticed for so long because they were not well known.
“This is a very sad case because the mother and father, I think, were not very active in the community and socially,” Cappetto said told the News Tribune.
“I think they felt very comfortable in the environment of their home.”
Still, Bill Bosma, who lives just two doors down from the Voslers, said the news “confirmed our fears.”
“We noticed that whenever we drove by there was always a lot of activity in the driveway with cars being worked on and in the yard,” his wife Cheri added. ‘We both noticed that.
“Suddenly it seemed like all activity had stopped.”
A motive for the shooting has not yet been determined, but authorities said they are closing the case because “we have no one to press charges.”