Cops Investigate Consensual Murder-Suicide of Pennsylvania Woman and Parents

A 26-year-old Pennsylvania woman, who encouraged her parents into a planned suicide pact, was found last week holding a 2.5- to 3-foot-long decorative metal sword with the words “The Sword of the Lord” inscribed on it. his sheet.

The bodies of Morgan Daub, her mother Deborah, 59, and her father James, 62, were found behind her parents’ home on Loman Avenue in West Manchester Township, where the massacre occurred.

The 26-year-old was found with her sword in her left hand and an empty holster on the right side of her belt the morning of January 25 after neighbors saw the bodies and called 911.

A “living will” had been taped to the inside of the home’s sliding glass door signed by all three family members, according to a search warrant obtained by AI.com.

The document stated that the trio would not have wanted to be resurrected if they had been found alive.

“At the bottom of the note are three clearly unique signatures for each name listed, followed by a date of 1/24/2023 written below the names,” Joseph Staley, a West Manchester officer, wrote in the search warrant. .

James and Deborah’s death was ruled a homicide by York Country Coroner Pamela Gay, while Morgan’s death was ruled a suicide.

Police have not confirmed who killed whom and in what order, however all three died from gunshot wounds to the head. Despite finding the knife, no stab wounds were found.

The black and silver ‘Sword of the Lord’, a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm pistol, a Sig Sauer AR-15, and 9mm bullet casings and bullet fragments were collected from the scene, according to the outlet.

Also found in the trash were suicide notes, which document important financial information, as well as notes from the Bible.

Police also found a document called ‘Cooper’s Dog Letter’, which was a list of detailed instructions on how to care for the drugged dog so it wouldn’t bite lifeguards.

Snowfall had initially concealed a handgun which officials later located in the backyard.

Gunshots echoed through the quiet neighborhood on the morning of January 25, prompting police to descend on the Daub family home after a call from a concerned neighbor.

Officers put up a cordon while a white tent was put up in the garden to mask the horrific sight of the lifeless Daub family in the backyard with gunshot wounds to the head.

Detectives analyzing “family member communications” found at the scene uncovered evidence that the murders were pre-planned and that all three family members appeared to have agreed to participate in the grisly murder-suicide pact.

Daub posted a rambling video to his YouTube channel on November 26 under the username LionessArising.

She opens the video with a fake British accent before declaring: “I, Morgan Elizabeth Daub, York, Pennsylvania, United States of America, hereby abdicate the Throne of the United Kingdom.”

Several minutes later, he adds: ‘This is funny… This was the penultimate plan against me and against God. I didn’t know that I was the ideal choice for the Antichrist, for the devil.

“I was the ideal choice for the Antichrist.”

A caption posted below the video reads: ‘This is a public record of my abdication of the throne and I cannot and will not take it back.

They in no way forced me to abdicate. I am sound in mind and body, and I have chosen it of my own free will. Also, I intend to sign official documents as soon as possible.

“For anyone who doesn’t know me and randomly finds this video, it’s a long story of what the next in line for the throne would look like. Everything will be said in due time.

His most recent upload came the day before the murders: a chilling six-second clip with no audio, titled “FOLLOW ME AS I FOLLOW CHRIST!!!”

He also posted a 30-minute video in September saying that his family “were being denied fundamental human rights.”

“You’ll find out why I’m a threat so soon,” the caption read.

The local police department said: ‘At this stage of the investigation, we do not believe there is any danger to the public and the surrounding community.

‘Final determination of cause and manner of death is pending. The situation is believed to be an event within the family and officers are continuing to investigate and gather information regarding this tragedy.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of the Daubs.”

A coroner’s report on the deaths said police were called in the late morning of January 25 with reports “indicating that three bodies had been found in [the] behind’ the residence of the Daub family.

“After a detailed investigation and evidence found at the scene, including communications from family members, it was determined that all three family members had pre-planned their deaths.”

According to the york officeAdditional written documents left behind by each family member said Morgan had “told his mother that he was having auditory hallucinations that were not getting better,” lead detective on the case Timothy Fink told the outlet.

“Deborah wrote that she didn’t want her daughter to pass away alone, so she decided to end her life with her,” Fink said.

“The letter written by James indicated that they had told him of their plan and he decided that he did not want to live without them.”

Chief John Snyder said the Daub family had been “extremely religious” and that only James was working at the time of his gruesome death pact.

Property records show the Daubs had lived in their home for the past 23 years, purchasing it in May 2000 when Morgan was just three years old.

Family friends of the Daub family have noted that the YouTube videos Morgan uploaded had not been consistent with the 26-year-old people they knew and loved.

The Morgan they knew had frequented the local bowling alley, one of her favorite pastimes, since she was a child.

‘She really seemed to enjoy bowling. And she was smart,’ Paula Wolfe, youth coordinator at Suburban Bowlerama told Youth Dispatch.

A quiet girl. Her mother was very kind. Dad was kind.

The bowling alley employee said the loss was a shock to the community.

“Everyone is really sad about it and they don’t know what to do with it,” Wolfe said.

‘I don’t know if you could ever imagine this. But, yeah, a family where you would never think something like this would happen.

Sherry Wagman, deputy director of tournaments for the York/Adams United States Bowling Congress association, said Morgan had started playing around the age of 8 or 9.

Wagman said the 26-year-old was always interested in learning more about the game and was “excited when she bowled well”.

Morgan played with the youth league at Lincolnway until the facility closed in 2013 and then moved to Suburban Bowlerama for two years.

“Morgan bowled in a number of tournaments when she was a junior bowler and won quite a few scholarships from those tournaments,” Wagman said.

Wagman noted that Morgan and her mother used to bowl together.

According to the gun violence filethe total number of gun violence deaths in the United States equals 3,730 from 2013 to February 2023.

Meanwhile, mass shootings stood at 1,618, mass murders at 6, and suicides at 2,112.