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On the night of December 28, 2018, four members of a family were killed at their home on the 100 block of Whetstone Drive in Saint Charles, Missouri. Ten-year-old Jonathan Douglas Kasten, his eight-year-old sister Zoe, and their grandmother, Jane Moeckel, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside the house. Their mother, Kate Kasten, was discovered critically wounded and later died at a hospital. The family had recently taken in Kate’s boyfriend, Richard Darren Emery, who had moved into the residence earlier that year.

According to the timeline, Emery fled in his pickup truck as officers arrived and engaged officers in a shootout that struck a police cruiser. After abandoning the truck he attempted to carjack a woman and stabbed her multiple times; she survived. A manhunt ended the next morning when Emery was found bleeding from gunshot wounds in a convenience store restroom and taken into custody. He was charged with multiple felonies, including four counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Does anyone have information about the family, the neighborhood, or the events that night that could shed light on what led to this tragedy?