Joey and Cindy are dead. I can't believe it, it is so unreal. Why? They never did anything to anyone. They were quiet and stayed home most of the time. It just makes no sense.

Tuesday night, May 11, at around 9 PM, Darrell and I were sitting down and had just started watching Big Fish. All of a sudden there was a huge banging on the door, and Darrell went to answer it. I heard Gina talking and I could tell something was wrong. I went to the door just in time to hear her say 'Joey and Cindy are dead and Seana's missing'. We pulled her in the house and I asked her if the police had been called. She said she didn't know, so I called 911 and told them what she'd just said. They said the sheriff was already on his way down there. I asked if they could tell me anything about what was happening, but they couldn't.

So we just all sat here and tried to figure out what was going on, and who would want to hurt Joey and Cindy and why. Darrell made brief mention of a man that Joey had talked about before that used to date Cindy's mom. He said that Joey had told him this guy had burned down a mobile home that Cindy's mom was staying in at one time, but luckily she wasn't there. Joey had told Darrell that he was concerned that this guy might come and try to start something with them, and that this guy was mean. He told Darrell that if he came down there to start trouble that Joey would kill him.

Then Gina told us again the whole story. She said at around 8:30, she told Danny that Joey had called him and so Danny called him back. They were talking, just for several minutes, when all of a sudden there was loud screaming from Seana. She said it was so loud she could hear it coming through the phone, and the dog started barking. She carried the dog inside so Danny could hear and he was trying to figure out what was happening, saying 'hello?' over and over. Then the phone went silent, but it hadn't been hung up. He came in and let Gina listen and asked her if she could hear anything. She said she heard something that sounded like a low voice, a moan or the tv or something. Danny decided to drive down there and see what had happened. When he got down there and found them dead, he called Gina and told her he didn't know what was going on, but Joey and Cindy were dead and Seana was missing. That's when the police arrived and he hung up.

Darrell left to go up to his brother's and mom and dad's houses and let them know. We didn't know who it could possibly be or if they might come down here since we're all connected. Before he went up there, he took Gina back home to get her dog and come back. While they were there, Danny called Gina back and said that Seana was at City Hall, that a neighbor had picked her up and she'd told them her mom and dad had been killed, so they took her to the police. That's how the police knew to go down there before I called them. Danny was on his way to City Hall to be with Seana, and his mother was with him. He had stopped by and picked her up before he went down there, and she is the one that found Joey, her oldest child. Seana also told them that the man who did it was Mark, her nana's ex-boyfriend. The guy Darrell had mentioned.

After that, we pretty much just sat around and talked about it and we were just all in shock. Gina left to go up to her mothers around 10, and she stayed up there until Danny got back from City Hall. Darrell and I watched tv and just sat here basically. We finally tried to lay down around 2 AM, and we slept until 3 when Gina called and said Danny was on his way home. He'd had to stay at City Hall all that time while the police talked to Seana and of course, he had to tell them what he'd seen and done. She asked us to come over, so we got up and went over. We stayed there until about 3:30, but we had to get back home because I was afraid Shelby would wake up and Mom wouldn't hear her. I slept sitting up on the couch for another couple of hours after we got back.

Darrell stayed home from work the next day (Wednesday), and Hunter stayed home from school. I gave both the kids the option to stay at home if they wanted to. They were both really upset about what had happened. They had overheard Gina telling us the story last night, so they basically knew Joey and Cindy had been shot and Seana was missing. Before they went to bed I told them Seana had been found, but I didn't tell them Joey and Cindy were dead. So when I woke them up on Wednesday, I had to tell them that Joey and Cindy were not alive. It was very upsetting to them both. They cried for a little while, and I cried with them. All day yesterday they would mention it, or they'd say they miss Joey and Cindy. Hunter said yesterday afternoon that he prayed that Joey and Cindy would be able to come back. I hate that they are having to deal with this. I hate that any of us are having to deal with this.

We now know that the guy who did it, Mark Siebenthal, shot Cindy numerous times. He was mainly after her, we think, because of her mother. Seana ran, but it's not clear if Joey told her to or if she just did because she was so scared. Joey apparently tried to get his gun, but wasn't able to. Oh, how I wish he could have. I have never felt such pure hatred for someone in my life.