Murder-suicide is my educated guess.

I don't see how someone not in the family, is going to get an entire family including the family dog to cooperate, and go to a secluded area away from the home and allow themselves to be executed.

I guess one could stage an ambush, but an outsider killing the kids and the dog wouldn't seem to serve any purpose. So that seems unlikely.


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