Brian Schlaepfer

VICTIMS: 6

Brian Schlaepfer was a highly respect individual in the farming community of Paerata, New Zealand. He owned over one hundred acres of land, on which he had built houses for most of his family. He had founded the local gliding club, donated a piece of land for the scouts to camp on, and at one stage had been a scoutmaster. But all this was soon to count for nothing.

His daughter-in-law, Hazel, had been plotting to have the old man removed as boss of the family farm, and have him replaced by herself. She had already convinced his sons that he was too old to run the place. Poor old Brian knew exactly what was going on, and coupled with a troublesome heart, he decided it was time to sort the scheming bitch and his traitorous family out.

Around Dawn on May 19, 1992, he finally flipped. He awoke, went into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. He then went back into the bedroom and hacked his wife to death. He then grabbed his gun and went after one of his sons, Karl, 33. He walked into Karl's bedroom and before Karl knew what was going on he had a big fucking hole in his head. He then went after grandson Aaron, 11, who he killed with a single blast. Then he spotted his Aaron's little sister Linda, 9 years old. Luckily for Linda her scheming bitch mother got in the way of the bullet, falling dead, and allowing young Linda to escape.

Schlaepfer then left the house in search of his sons, who were working on the farm. He found them, and they found death not long afterwards, both from gunshot wounds. Around this time little Linda was on the phone to the police. She was describing the mornings excitement to local cop Jeff Stuck.

"My granddad's shot my brother."
"Shot your brother?"
"Yes, and he's coming to shoot me."
"He's going to shoot you now?"
"Yes, he's looking for me."
"Is your mum there; can your mum come to the phone?"
"No. . . Mummy's dead. My brothers been shot and he's groaning and twitching."

Eventually Linda gave police directions to the farm. A special squad were sent out to the farm to find Schlaepfer, who had no more relatives to kill, except Linda. At around 3.00pm they found him. He was lying dead from a gunshot wound to the head in an open field.

Amazingly, Brian Schlaepfer was buried next to the six family members he had killed. And Linda was at the mass funeral for all seven. It was reported in a local paper at the time that she didn't say a word, or even cry.

 

MY OPINION

New Zealand most be crowned king of the familicide. Every year there seems to be another one. Schlaepfer is one of the better ones, mainly because he really did have a reason to be pissed off. I also liked the boy scout link, it always make me think of paedophiles, a funny bunch them scouts. Perhaps the reason I like this one is because it's close to Australia, but most of these New Zealand family jobs have been quite good.