HOUSTON: BODIES OF 2 ADULTS, 3 KIDS FOUND

5 Bodies Found At Northeast Houston Home

A family of five is found dead at a northeast Houston home, KPRC Local 2 reports.

Five bodies, including 3 children, found in Houston
AP Texas News / May 10, 2008, 8:31PM
By JUAN A. LOZANO
Associated Press Writer © 2008 The Associated Press

HOUSTON — Police were still trying to determine what happened to five people, including three young children, whose bodies were found Saturday afternoon in a home in rural northeast Houston.

Although a .22 caliber rifle was found in the lap of an adult male, whose body was found on the porch, police declined to speculate on whether this might have been a murder-suicide, saying it was still early in their investigation. Besides the gun, shell casings were found around his body, police said.

Houston police Sgt. John Chomiak said investigators believed all five people lived in the home. Neighbors said the five people were a husband, wife and their three children.

Police did not immediately release the identities of the victims.

The bodies of a woman between 20 and 30 years old and a boy thought to be about 10 were found in one part of the home, Chomiak said.

The bodies of a boy thought to be between 3 and 5 and a girl believed to be between 4 and 6 were found in another part of the home, described by authorities as a simple wooden structure that was divided in the middle by the porch. A wooden fence and large trees in the front block a view of the home from the street.

WHAT'S GOING ON? WHO KILLED THIS FAMILY...AND WHY?
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MYANMAR REFUSES AID: CYCLONE KILLS 22,000+, 41,000 MISSING

MYANMAR, formerly called BURMA

Pedestrians walk past debris on a street after tropical cyclone Nargis passed through Yangon, May 4, 2008. Source: Democratic Voice of Burma via Bloomberg News

Myanmar Buddhist Monk makes his way past a fallen tree following a devastating cyclone, Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Yangon. The death toll from the cyclone has risen to almost 4,000, a Myanmar state radio station has said. The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said Monday that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town in the country's low-lying Irrawaddy River delta area. (AP Photo/Barry Broman)

The cyclone wrecked boats in Yangon Harbor.

Buddhist monks move branches from an uprooted tree blocking a street in Yangon.

Myanmar cyclone death toll exceeds 22,000

A news broadcast on the state-run station said Tuesday that 22,464 people had been confirmed dead from Cyclone Nargis. The broadcast added that 41,000 more were missing.
The U.N. estimated up to a million could be homeless.

China's state-run Xinhua news agency, quoting officials, reported a death toll of 10,000 alone in the township of Bogalay.

CNN's Dan Rivers, the only western journalist in Bogalay, said he had seen nothing but destroyed homes for 30 kilometers and people were now sheltering under canvas covers. They had little food bar a small amount of eggs and rice.

Watch family huddle in ruined home »

Rivers said he had seen the army and Red Cross in the area, but the weather remained awful and conditions were miserable.

The aftermath has pushed Myanmar's normally secretive ruling military junta to ask for aid and release details of the devastation. However, the U.N. said its aid workers were still waiting for visas to enter the country. It, the Red Cross and other aid organizations have been gathering supplies to ship to the country.

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"No food. No water," an exasperated man told him. "So you have to find everything."

See photos of the destruction »

WHY DOES MYANMAR REFUSE HELP?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/myanmar.cyclone/index.html

WENDELL LOY NIELSEN: POLYGAMIST HAS 21 WIVES, 36 KIDS

At the age of 18, Carolyn Jessop was forced to marry a 50-year old man who already had three wives.

Polygamy roll shows 21 wives for one member

By Susan Roesgen (CNN)/ Mon May 5, 2008

(CNN) -- In the secretive, illegal world of American polygamy, life has been good to 67-year-old Wendell Loy Nielsen of Eldorado, Texas.

By his own account, Nielsen has 21 wives -- and 36 children.

His oldest wife is 13 years older than he is, and his youngest wife is 43 years younger -- she's just 24.

His oldest child is 21 years old, and his youngest is a 6-month-old baby.

That's one of the longer, single-family genealogies uncovered in a CNN review of the "Bishop's List" -- a series of documents listing the age, marital status, children and address of the members of the Yearning for Zion polygamist ranch in Eldorado, Texas.

The ranch is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that practices polygamy.

The Bishop's List was found among nearly 1,000 boxes of paperwork taken from the ranch by investigators who are considering child-abuse charges against some of the sect members.

Investigators don't believe there is a "bishop" on the ranch. Instead, they believe sect members take orders from the man they call their "prophet"-- convicted polygamist Warren Jeffs. Jeffs is in prison for forcing a 13-year-old girl to marry her 17-year-old cousin.

Investigators say Jeffs still exerts control from prison through one of the men on the ranch, Merle Jessop. One of Jessop's wives is a former sect member, Carolyn Jessop, who left a polygamist compound and later wrote a book about her experience, called "Escape."

THIS STORY IS GOING TO TAKE A LONG, LONG TIME...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/05/polygamist.families/index.html