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On March 24, 2014, 46-year-old Eldon Gale Samuel Jr was killed in his Coeur d'Alene, Idaho home. The boy allegedly fired a total of four shots as his father crawled away.

The same night the teenager also killed his 13-year-old brother, Jonathan, who had autism and reportedly was hiding under his bed. The attack on Jonathan is described as involving multiple weapons, including a shotgun, a knife, and a machete. The younger son later called police to confess to both killings.

Court testimony presented years of alleged abuse and neglect in the household, with witnesses and mental health experts describing a violent environment and suggesting the older boy suffered from reactive attachment disorder. Jurors later convicted him of second-degree murder in the father’s death and first-degree murder in Jonathan’s death; at age 16 he received a minimum 20-year sentence. Did anyone in Coeur d’Alene know the Samuel family and what happened inside that home?