The Harris Family's Last Christmas in New York State

Tony and Dolores Harris, their 15-year-old Shelby and their 11-year- old Mark were tied up, shot, then doused with gasoline and set a light. Their horribly scorched and disfigured corpses were discovered the following morning after a neighbor of theirs complained to the fire department about a smoke alarm going off on their property. Police quickly uncovered a suspect, an ex-con known as Michael Kinch, who threatened to take his own life when they cornered him in his apartment complex. But before he fell, Kinch turned the shotgun on himself,. The Tompkins County medical examiner found that the attempt at taking his own life had merely grazed the side of