What crime was this?


When I was eleven, a friend of mine told me about a true crime she had watched on the A&E channel. It was a disturbing case, and eight years later it still affects me. Unfortunately, I don't recall the name of this case, or where it happened, or what true crime show it was on. And I don't remember all the details, but here are the few that I do remember:

Case took place in the nineties, or early 2000s. A brother and sister were taken on a camping trip by a couple. the four of them slept in a barn. In the middle of the night, the sister awoke and witnessed the couple killing her brother, and when they realized that she had seen what they'd done, they killed her, too, and burned the bodies in a fire pit.

The case went cold...I think. The mother of the children went looking for them and came across the neighborhood where the barn was. People in the area said to avoid it...it was a strange place and the couple who lived there were very weird. The mother went anyway and found her daughter's bracelet in the fire pit.


This case had to have been profiled on either Cold Case Files, American Justice, or 48 Hours Mystery. Also, it happened in the nineties, and no later than 2002. If you know what case this is, please post. Thanks!


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Five years late with this response, and I can't find an episode about it or anything, but was it the murder of Melody Lopez? Here's a newspaper article about it, or a very similar crime: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1638&dat=20010615&id=7yk 6AAAAIBAJ&sjid=PioMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1335,8259379

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Oh what the heck, in case that's ever removed or something by the time you or anyone else curious checks back (if you ever check back, and I don't blame you if you don't, it's been 5 years! lol) I'll type up a transcript:

The Cobalt Daily Nugget
Jun 15, 2001

Mother identifies slain daughter's bracelet in court

SAULT STE. MARIE (CP) -- A bracelet belonging to a missing American woman was found in a fire pit where human bones were discovered, the victim's mother told court during a double-murder trial Thursday.
The mother of Melody Lopez of Columbus, Ohio, identified the bracelet as belonging to her 21-year-old pregnant daughter.
"I purchased it for her at the same time I purchased an identical one for myself," a tearful Robin Masullo testified.
Robert Armstrong has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in connection with Lopez's death and second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend Shawn Barrett of Nepean.
The couple disappeared while hitchhiking across Canada in August 1999.
Court heard Armstrong, 24, of Kingsville, picked them up and they stayed at his cabin.
Four months later, he was charged in their deaths.
The charred bracelet was found in December 1999 when police and a forensic anthropologist examined a secluded camp site near this Northern Ontario community, a provincial police officer told the trial.

Trial continues next week
During the fourth day of the trial, jurors saw video and photographs of Armstrong's cabin.
The photos identified the fire pit where Lopez's bracelet was found, along with human and bones belonging to a dog.
During their examination of the unkempt cabin, provincial police also found a rifle and a shotgun, jurors learned.
A revolver was found hidden in the panel of a van, one of a number of vehicles that was found on the littered property.
The couple's travelling companion, Chris Rogers, took the stand Wednesday when he testified that Armstrong had pointed the revolver at the victims on the second night of their stay.
The incident occurred after Barrett accused Armstrong of hitting on Lopez.
The trial will continue Monday and was expected to wrap up by the end of next week.

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