Three women including a grandmother have been stabbed to death at their home in New York by a suspected member of the family.
Police believe the grandmother's relative fled the scene around 5am as the women aged, 26, 46 and 57 were found in the Queens home by an assistant carer.
The three women were found around 10.40am in Brookville, with one of the victims said to be bedridden, when a worker arrived to help the grandmother.
However, when the assisted living carer arrived she discovered the three women dead and called the police who are now investigating the murders.
The grim murders come just days after a son was sentenced to prison for 20 years for brutally murdering his mum in another shocking story of brutal family violence in America.
In the unrelated case, David Sumney, 33, from Pennsylvania, US, documented the killing of his mum Margaret Sumney, 67, with over 275 photos and posed next to her dead body in August 2019.
The killer was given a 20-year-sentence after signing a plea which saw Summey get off with a third-degree murder charge - much to the anger of his mum's sisters who argue he should face first-degree murder charges.
Sumney was arrested just days after he killed his mum in Pennsylvania as his mum's debit card, necklace, bracelet, and three cheques were found in his belongings.
He then booked a hotel room in Philadelphia after the killing and gave a hotel manager a set of of pearls belonging to his mum as he remarked "from a special lady to a special lady."
Prosecutors also accused Summey of searching "how long does it take before a body starts to decompose?' and "how long do you wait to dispose of a body?" on the internet in 2020.
Mary Ellen, Margaret's older sister, said her nephew should have been given the death penalty whilst his other aunt, Ann, begged the judge to "not give him a second chance."
Margaret's niece, Margo, described in court on Thursday the scene inside her aunt's home as she noticed a pungent "metallic smell."
She told the judge: "He is the epitome of pure evil. We will never find peace with any of this."
Ellen, Sumney's half-sister, said on Zoom she felt anger and disgust over the sentence as she chose not to attend the court in person as her wishes for a higher sentence were "repeatedly ignored."