A murder-suicide inside one of Houston's wealthiest neighbourhoods has left an entire community struggling to understand how a family known for success, travel and hospitality ended in unimaginable violence.
Police say restaurateur Matthew Mitchell fatally shot his pregnant wife, Thy Mitchell, and their two children, Maya and Max, inside the family's River Oaks home before taking his own life. The case has stunned many because of the family's polished public image – a pattern seen in several of the world's most haunting familicide cases, where devastation unfolded behind seemingly ordinary doors.
