"She had a different way of thinking," says nephew of Carnation murder suspect

Details are starting to leak out about the Carnation woman suspected of killing her parents, her brother and her wife, and their two kids Christmas Eve with the help of a boyfriend.

The P-I got the scoop from Ben Anderson, the suspected killer's nephew and grandson of the victims.:

The violence, Ben Anderson said, stemmed from a dispute over money, and a long-standing fight between Michele Anderson and her parents. He said his aunt had been fighting with her parents since she was 13 and was angry because she didn't think her parents showed her enough love.

"She had a different way of thinking," Ben Anderson said, speaking from his car after dropping a memorial wreath off at his grandparents' home Wednesday night. "My grandparents had a lot of money. She had lived on the property rent-free her whole life, and they were just trying to help her out."

Dead from gunshot wounds are Michele's father Wayne, her mother Judy, her brother Scott, his wife Erica, and their kids (pictured at right) Olivia, who was 6, and Nathan, who was 3.

The mind boggles at the level of depravity (or intoxication) one would have to sink to to shoot a three-year-old.

Other than the family, we're pretty sure the next-most-upset people are the two King County Sheriff's Deputies who responded to a 911 call from the house the night of the killings, but didn't venture onto the property because they encountered a locked gate.

Authorities speculate that the killing was done by then, reports the Times, but we suspect that such speculation is of little comfort to the deputies, who made a very poor and possibly fateful decision--though they may have been misled by the person who took the call, who wrote to the dispatcher, "Heard a lot of yelling in the background. Sounded more like party noise than angry heated arguing."

Party noise it was not. A co-worker of Judy Anderson found the bodies two days later.

The P-I has a handy list of other mass slayings, which include Kyle Huff's Capitol Hill rampage, which happened nearly two years ago now. We were reminded that the Seattle Times cited the slaying of six people in that incident to argue for stronger government controls on teen dances.

We haven't yet seen the editorial we can only assume is already planned, arguing for stronger government controls on family Christmas gatherings, but we're looking forward to it.