On November 29, 1998, 19-year-old Jedediah Privacky was shot in the back of the head inside his family home in Muskegon, Michigan. The shooting was the opening act in a sequence of killings that left five people dead that afternoon and evening.

Seth allegedly armed himself with a .22-caliber Ruger and shot Jedediah while he was watching television. Investigators later found the bodies of Jedediah, his mother Linda, his father Stephen, his grandfather John, and Jedediah’s 19-year-old girlfriend April Boss throughout the house. April’s parents discovered a body in the driveway and called police, prompting the full scene to be uncovered.

Police identified Seth Privacky as the primary suspect; he was arrested the next day after hiding in a nearby pole barn. An 18-year-old named Steven Wallace was also taken into custody and initially charged as an accessory for helping move bodies to stage the scene. Seth later confessed and was convicted on five counts of murder and given life without parole.