Authorities: Murder suspect's grandparents were strangled
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SEATTLE - The grandparents of a man who is accused of killing them were strangled at their Renton home after they held a party to welcome him home from prison, the King County sheriff's office said.
Sgt. Cindi West says the King County Medical Examiner's Office determined the cause of death for 82-year-old Robert Taylor and 80-year-old Norma Taylor.
Authorities have accused 26-year-old Michael Chadd Boysen of killing the couple after they hosted a party for him Friday to welcome him home from prison after he had served a nine-month sentence for burglary.
Boysen's mother discovered the bodies Saturday evening. She had been called by a family member who became concerned that the couple hadn't answered their door.
In comments made to a King County sheriff's spokeswoman and released Thursday, Boysen's mother, Melanie Taylor, says although her 26-year-old son spent time in prison for burglary and robbery, he never threatened his family and the family never felt threatened by him.
In Taylor's words, "when it came to Chadd, they saw the good in him and were forgiving of his choices."
The motive for the killings remains unknown, West said.
"Between the family and detectives we have no idea," Taylor said earlier. "It's just bizarre. The family loved and supported him the whole time he was in prison."
Boysen was arrested Tuesday after a daylong standoff at a motel in Lincoln City, Ore. Officers who forced their way into his hotel room found him lying on the floor on his back with apparently serious self-inflicted cuts, Lincoln City police Chief Keith Kilian said.
He was flown to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, where his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. West said he is conscious, but it was not clear if he is cooperating with authorities.
It could take a month to extradite him to Washington state, West said.
Boysen was previously in prison in Washington between 2006 and February 2011 for four robbery convictions. Those convictions were related to an addiction to narcotic painkillers, said state Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis.
Sgt. Cindi West says the King County Medical Examiner's Office determined the cause of death for 82-year-old Robert Taylor and 80-year-old Norma Taylor.
Authorities have accused 26-year-old Michael Chadd Boysen of killing the couple after they hosted a party for him Friday to welcome him home from prison after he had served a nine-month sentence for burglary.
Boysen's mother discovered the bodies Saturday evening. She had been called by a family member who became concerned that the couple hadn't answered their door.
In comments made to a King County sheriff's spokeswoman and released Thursday, Boysen's mother, Melanie Taylor, says although her 26-year-old son spent time in prison for burglary and robbery, he never threatened his family and the family never felt threatened by him.
In Taylor's words, "when it came to Chadd, they saw the good in him and were forgiving of his choices."
The motive for the killings remains unknown, West said.
"Between the family and detectives we have no idea," Taylor said earlier. "It's just bizarre. The family loved and supported him the whole time he was in prison."
Boysen was arrested Tuesday after a daylong standoff at a motel in Lincoln City, Ore. Officers who forced their way into his hotel room found him lying on the floor on his back with apparently serious self-inflicted cuts, Lincoln City police Chief Keith Kilian said.
He was flown to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, where his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. West said he is conscious, but it was not clear if he is cooperating with authorities.
It could take a month to extradite him to Washington state, West said.
Boysen was previously in prison in Washington between 2006 and February 2011 for four robbery convictions. Those convictions were related to an addiction to narcotic painkillers, said state Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis.
"when it came to Chadd, they saw the good in him and were forgiving of his choices." Sometimes, it's better to be a realist...
Ya'll are too mean to Chadd. Personally I sent Chadd a Get Well card. Sure did!
Dear Chadd,
Get well soon we are waiting for you in Washington State and really look forward to hanging your ugly self.
Washington Taxpayers
@MagicalwomanÂ
This guy will not hang. His lawyers stand to lose too much money defending him from execution. We, the public, are held hostage to the trial lawyers. I wish there were a way to strip these legal bandits, called defense lawyers, of their strangle hold on us. If we could, that would open more prison space for more repeat criminals to be properly dealt with.Â
Adopted????? Sorry, but I don't see the connection?
@Magicalwoman I have not read that he was adopted but if so, it could be RAD (reactive attachment disorder), a huge risk in adopting.
It is hard to look at those two kind faces and think of what happened. Apparently the boy was adopted, so the mother did not likely know just what she got. There's only so much that parents can do, in any case.
@plantfann, Yeah, because everybody knew that he was doomed from birth to be a murdering creep.
Holy crap - this guy is one sick mutha. I know alleged, and I'll be the first to say wait for the trial, but this is pretty darn cut and dry - he won't get death, he's a coward. You watch - he'll plead out to life in prison with consecutive sentences assuring he will never, ever see the light of day.
I'm still waiting for @socialjusticeforall's take on this. I could use a laugh about now.
@SargeMcCÂ Â
I am hearing crickets.
@Ventura66, Maybe they took my advice to change their avatar name. With that kind of intelligence at work this may be a lengthy process.
@SargeMcC He's choosing to remain silent out of fear of looking like a fool. Oh wait............
I don't know what to say to this except what everybody else has said about the grandparents - how terrible for them! Strangulation, that takes some doing and up close and personal...ick. and eeek. May they RIP.
Noy enough drugs at his welcome home party?
Frustrating to see him get loaded into an ambulance. His grandparents didn't get that chance. They should have had him walk to the police car and if he still had a pulse when he got to jail, great. If not, no loss. Society really needs to start flushing these derelicts down the proverbial toilet. Just like we're wasting taxpayer money defending the losers that killed her own family in Carnation which should hit $2 million soon. In what world is this acceptable?Â
@NWlife In that perfect "Utopian world" that liberal dreamers dream about. We brought 15 Somali pirates back for trial last year and spent millions them them too. All said and done by the time those fine gentlemen from the armpit of the world get done serving their time here Uncle Sam will have shelled out 40 million on them. But, that's OK..we are a enlightened and noble society now. I just wish the liberals would pay all the bills for it.
@NWlife I agree.  They had a robot and probably knew he had harmed himself.  Should have given him enough time to bleed out.
@NWlife - apparently it's 'acceptable' in this world.
I've read that nearly every time the family says something like that, if you look closer, the person was a major freak with warning signs. Why were these parents so loving and supportive of someone who comited 4 robberies. How about that he was threatening to kill family right before he was released.These people are WIERD not to suspect a problem
Must be a nice feeling to have it all smugly figured out.
Maybe if they were as "loving and supportive" of him during his growing up years (i.e. getting him the help he needed, not enabling his behavior, etc.), none of this would have happened.
@The WA MamaI might agree with you if we were talking about getting his grades up or some tough love after committing some minor crimes, but when someone is willing to go this far off the deep end it just shows that there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop them - other than lock them up for good or shoot them like a rabid dog. Â As Grampa use to say "Some people just ain't right".
@The WA Mama
That was totally unjust and uncalled for.If my children or grandchildren got into trouble, I would love them none the less.I would not respect their choices or actions, but I would still love them.These poor victims thought they were helping their grandson re-enter society.They obviously did not have any idea how demented he actually was.Looking through their hearts they still saw a grandchild they loved.May they rest in peace.
@The WA Mama You don't really know if they did or didn't.  Ever had a drug addict in your family?  It seems like an impossible situation, a never-ending vicious cycle of lies, manipulation, stealing, relapses, etc.  Maybe his parents had enough - he's a grown man, their job was done long ago. Â
@The WA Mama I personally know his mother and she is every bit as loving and kind as his grandparents were.  You need to keep your unfounded opinions to yourself. Â
I was talking about his parents, not his grandparents! His grandparents sounded like loving people who wanted to help him. They were truely the innocent victims in this case. My comments were directed towards his parents.  THEY are the ones who should have intervened at the first signs of trouble. Â
Oh yeah...if they had just followed the strictly laid-out rules for dealing with these things. Life is so simple if people would just do what they're "supposed" to, right?
This is beyond horrible. He was looking in their eyes as he choked them to death. The inhumanity is shocking.
so this was personal to him-he wanted to be up close to them ... shoot this sick effer right now.
"It's just bizarre. The family loved and supported him the whole time he was in prison." Not anymore! It would be bizarre if the remaining family still did.
What a nice way to thank those family members that supported him all that a time."A strangulation party?! Aww You shouldn't have!"
Why didn't they just let this POS bleed out, what a waste of tax payer money he is gonna be.
@hinterland Agreed. It's most likely that the coward didn't want to die, or he would have - everytime he pulled the suicide trick. He pulled it in prison too. They really ought to have let this creep die.
I don't understand why when they find a guy who has committed two murders and has attempted to kill himself, they try and help him by taking him to the hospital to then help him get better and proceed with court hearings. Â Just wait it out, let him die by his own hand and save the taxpayers a bunch of money on a trial.Â
@The206Â Because if they had, the KOMO commenting elite would be screaming police brutality.
Hee! High five.
If only Obama had hurried up and banned assault weapons, this never would have happened. Just saying.
So sad.
@Bianca  It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
@Bianca - this guy used his bare hands.Â
@Bianca Just saying something retarded? Acutally, people still die in speeding accidents even though there's a speed limit. Shall we get rid of speed limits. Only under your even more ridiculous logic shall we get rid of speed limits since someone was killed by strangulation? Oh wait, it isn't related. But heck, if they're still dying anyway, why have speed limits, right? Oh wait, that's IDIOT logic. Please quit using it Bianca.
@Bianca Or if they had only lived in Mass, where Mitt Romney DID ban assault weapons.Â
@lakeview @Bianca Mitt Romney? Jeez, why not make some Palin comments too, or are you not aware that the election is over?
@lakeview - Well, lakeview, thank you very much for making my point. People kill, guns don't.
Anyone have any statistics on annual strangulation deaths? Â
So we know about 12 thousand people are shot to death each year, how many are strangled to death? Â
@lakeview You need to focus on the larger picture of why people are killed and not how. What makes a person want to kill and what indicators can be seen to stop it if the first place. When people like you only focus on the weapon you willingly are giving up any ability to stop killing in the first place. As you can see in @burton reply there are many other ways people get killed by other people in this country. All the effort you put into banning guns is not keeping people from getting murdered. It does not matter how they are murdered but because you have a personal fear of guns you think removing them will make a better society. Maybe for you but I would expect you have never been seriously threatened with physical harm by anyone using something else then a gun and I doubt you have ever been seriously threatened by anyone in this country to warrant your fears of guns.
@lakeview
2011 murder victims:
Strangluation: 85
Asphyxiation: 89
Rifles: 323
Hands, fists, feet, etc: 728
Knives: 1694
@burton you only included rifles, not all guns. As it stands over 32,000 people were killed by guns in 2011 in the united states.
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states
@burton @the tide That's probably even on the conservative side, because when they do the polling on who owns guns, people are beginning to say they dont own them, when in fact they do... Add to that these are the guns that are known...most people collecting the data suggest that the number of guns is probably much higher because in reality we have no true way of knowing, considering the sold out shelves in my local stores... well I would be surprised if that number doest jump 20% by this time next year...
@the tide@burtonÂ
32,000
of which suicides accounted for...
19,766. Those don't mean anything in regards to guns, we can subtract those.
Your source doesn't seem to have a category for self-defense or justified uses of force by police, so I can't subtract those unfortunately.
However, let's add some perspective to the figure of 12,234.
Using your source:
The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is 270,000,000. The rate of private gun ownership in the United States is 88.82 firearms per 100 people.
So let's say that every one of those 12,234 deaths were caused by a unique firearm.
12,234 divided by 270 million is..
0.00004
.0004% of all guns in the US were used to kill another person.
Looks to me like guns aren't as much of a problem as certain people, politicians and media organizations would have us believe. Wouldn't you agree?
@burton --- Where is all the outrage over knives?!? Still waiting....