murders on peach lane

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On the early morning hours of May 12th, 2007 Maggie Haines woke up to noises. She didn’t know what was going on so she went into her parents where she found her mother slightly sitting on the edge of her bed. Her mom told Maggie that she needed to go get help. Maggie ran to a neighbors house and they called the police. When they arrived the went to the neighbors house first to ask Maggie what was going on but she couldn’t give them an exact answer. Her father had recently been in the hospital and she thought that there was a possibility that there was a complication with that. After multiple knocks on the Haines’ family home with no response the two responding officers went in and started a sweep of the home. They found sixteen year old Kevin Haines laying facedown in a pool of blood just outside his bedroom door. Inside his bedroom there was blood splattered all across the walls. Down the hall in Tom and Lisa Haines’ room they were also deceased on arrival but the scene in their bedroom wasn’t as bad. Since the majority of the attack was on Kevin Haines it seemed that he was the primary target. No one could think of anyone who would want to do this to the Haines family. The only real person of interest in the beginning was Maggie Haines. She had just come home from college, she was the only survivor, and her demeanor after the murders was odd. Although, she was later cleared of any wrong doing. The Haines family were from Mainheim Township, Pennsylvania and lived on a beautiful quiet street Peach Lane. Tom Haines was married to Lisa Ann Haines and they had two children Maggie and Kevin Haines. Tom Haines was a fifty year old salesman at Motion Industries. Lisa Ann Haines was a forty-seven year old preschool tea... ... middle of paper ... ...st amount of time possible. At the trial most of the Haines family was there except for Maggie because she couldn’t face Alec but she did make a video that was played for him. In the video she basically told him how disgusted she was with him and his actions and how he ripped her family from her. Alec was given the opportunity to speak but he didn’t say anything. “ The judge then formally imposed three life sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. “These sentences shall not only be served consecutively,” he said, “but the sentencing order is to include a notation from me that, in the event in the future there is a possibility of clemency by some governor or future governor, I strongly object to the granting of any clemency.” ( Cuneo 271) Alec Kreider will now spend the rest of his life in prison for what he did to the Haines family.

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