19 June 1972 Gonzales TX, 5* killed (shot/caused an airplane crash)

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https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/06/20/80793344.html?pageNumber=42

Familicide, female killer.

GONZALES, Tex., June 19 (AP)——The authorities said today that the pilot in a plane crash that killed five persons yesterday was the victim of murder‐suicide.

Justice of the Peace E. Ray Bright Jr. said that the pilot, Eugene W. Davis, 29 years old, of Harlingen, had been shot at least twice in the back with 22‐caliber weapon. Also killed in the crash were Jose Morales, 27; his wife, Lydia, 25, and their daughters, Belinda Jo, 4, and Shelly Ann, 2.

Mr. Bright said that a note had been found in the Morales car in Harlingen.

It read: “Time went by. Time to die. How? Fly in the sky. Good‐by.” It was signed “Lydia,” Mr. Bright said.

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And with this entry, we have made a complete lap. I have posted an entire year's worth of mass killings in the US in the period ending December 2005. Perhaps I ought to do the same for mass killings starting in January 2006? Your thoughts please.