ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMESA vase of flowers is left outside of Scott and Erica Anderson's house in Black Diamond on Thursday, with a note that reads, "We will miss you."
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Mary Anderson, center, whose parents and four other family members were killed, cries during her sister's arraignment Thursday.
Mary Anderson, center, whose parents and four other family members were killed, cries during her sister's arraignment Thursday.
KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMESJoseph McEnroe and his girlfriend, Michele Anderson, are accused of killing six members of her family.
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Murder suspect Michele Anderson leaves a King County courtroom after her arraignment Thursday.
Pair plead not guilty in Carnation slayings
By Natalie Singer, Seattle Times staff reporter
By Natalie Singer, Seattle Times staff reporter
Friday, January 11, 2008
As she waited for her sister to enter a King County courtroom Thursday morning, Mary Anderson closed her eyes, clasped her hands beneath her trembling chin and slowly exhaled.
When Michele Kristen Anderson was led in by jail guards, Mary Anderson began to shake and cry from behind the bulletproof window separating her and dozens of friends and family members from the two suspects accused of slaying six members of the sisters' family on Christmas Eve.
Michele Anderson and her boyfriend Joseph McEnroe, both 29, each pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated murder in the six slayings.
Mary Anderson clenched her fists and slowly shook her head. "That doesn't mean they're going to get away with it," she told her family and friends surrounding her at the arraignment.
Michele Anderson and McEnroe could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Anderson's parents, Wayne Anderson, 60, and Judith, 61; her brother, Scott; his wife, Erica; and the couple's two children, Olivia, 5, and Nathan, 3, inside the elder Andersons' Carnation home.
King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg has 30 days from the arraignment to decide whether to seek the death penalty for the two, who are being held without bail. They will return to court Jan. 29.
The suspects were dressed in street clothes and free of handcuffs after Judge Cheryl Carey ruled this week that appearing in their High Security Inmate uniforms and restraints could prejudice a future jury.
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