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In December 2000 the Lembeck family lived on Marble Valley Basin Road, about eight miles northwest of Addy in Stevens County, north-eastern Washington. Robert Lembeck was forty-nine, an independent logger who owned Lembeck Family Logging and expected to retire at fifty. His wife Diana was forty-three and had multiple sclerosis; she had been in decline for about twelve years and used a wheelchair or walked with a stick. They had four children. Clint, twenty-four, had left home at fifteen and worked with his father. Jolene, eighteen, was a senior at Colville High School, an honour student who played tennis, sang in the choir and worked part-time at a Colville espresso stand. details of the account remain covered until revealed Wesley, twelve, was the youngest.

Robert and Diana met in Orchards, Washington, in 1970, when he was nineteen and she was thirteen. They married on December 15, 1972, when he was twenty-one and she was fifteen. Clint was born in 1976, Jolene in 1982 and Wesley in 1988. Around 1980 the couple joined the Jehovah's Witnesses. Robert left the congregation in the mid-1980s, complaining that the members were gossipy and that the rules kept the family from celebrating holidays, but Diana stayed and raised the children in the faith. Around the time Wesley was born Diana was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The family bought three acres on Marble Valley Road and Robert built a two-storey, three-bedroom house himself, moving the family in during 1992. He built the logging business through the 1990s with his brothers, a cousin and his son.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He was intelligent but could not concentrate, and his school record included forty-three minor misbehaviour referrals in the sixth grade, among them hacking into a teacher's computer to change a password and, later, to change other students' grades. He was six foot one and about 240 pounds by the age of sixteen, and he had been held back twice. In the summer of 2000 he ran away from home and stole twenty-five dollars in rolled coins and a silver bar worth $166 from a neighbour's house. this part of the story is covered for now Afterwards his brother Clint offered him a deal: if he behaved and did his chores, their mother would pay for the parts to restore an old white Camaro and Clint would help him rebuild it. Diana homeschooled him that year, and he was due to return to public school in Colville after Christmas.

On December 17, 2000, the family used a new video camera to record themselves talking and joking at home. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She showed it to her parents, then erased it. She was so upset that she slept at a friend's house and then at her boyfriend Dylan Simpkins's house rather than go home. this part of the story is covered for now

On December 23 Diana cooked a large turkey dinner with all the trimmings. She and Robert argued, and she was so tired that she left the table and went to bed without finishing her meal. At nine that evening her sister Pam Ham telephoned and woke her. Diana said only that she and Robert had had a big fight. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He then went into the small kitchen and living-room area and shot his mother, his younger brother and his sister. details of the account remain covered until revealed Wesley was shot once in the head at close range. Jolene was shot twice in the head and once in the back, and struck in the head. Robert and Wesley had contact wounds.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Before he buried Jolene he raped her corpse and put a towel over her face. He then went home, mopped the floors, used bleach, and painted over the blood on the kitchen walls. The blood came through the paint. Over the following days he told relatives and friends that his parents had gone to California to visit a sick relative. He kept the house, had friends over, and wanted to pawn the family video camera.

this part of the story is covered for now Clint asked other relatives whether anyone in California was ill, and nobody knew of anyone. Diana's brother Andy Davenport, who shared the driveway, had also seen nothing of the family, and all the cars were still at the house. A neighbour who was a waitress noticed the family horse loose and could not reach them by telephone. Andy and the neighbour asked the sheriff's office to make a welfare check.

In the early hours of December 30 deputies Paul Murray and Dwayne Johnson arrived at the house. details of the account remain covered until revealed He told them to look wherever they liked. Inside they found Robert's wallet, Diana's purse and Jolene's purse, all with identification. One deputy noticed blood spots in the snow. Another found blood on the hot water tank and the washing machine, a wall painted over blood, and small dried pieces of flesh scattered through the house. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He admitted shooting his father, mother, brother and sister, and said he had taken the bodies two miles away in his father's truck. this part of the story is covered for now

At the station he said he had dumped the bodies northwest of Addy off Knaff Road. Deputies found the four bodies in the snowbank about two miles from the house. Jolene was naked from the waist down with a towel over her face; the others were as he had left them. He first said she had been wearing trousers when he buried her, then admitted that he had raped her corpse. He said the argument had started because his father told him to bring firewood into the house and he refused; while his father showered he loaded the guns. He said he shot his father because his father was going to throw him out and send him back to Martin Hall, and killed the others because they were witnesses. He agreed that Wesley was the only one he had no reason to be angry with, and Wesley was shot once.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Because he was under eighteen he was not eligible for the death penalty. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Clint declined restitution for the burial costs. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now In 2011 a letter from him was offered for sale online, and at some point he had a prisoner pen-pal profile in which he described crocheting, playing guitar and training dogs.