Glendale Mother Was a Nurse at Local Health Care Provider
Information from her LinkedIn page describes Cathy Murch of Glendale as an active community woman; she died with her children in what's been described as a murder-suicide.
The Glendale woman who died of gunshots with her 8-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son was a registered nurse in the communty who worked for a local health care provider as treatment educator. Catherine Murch, 42, was found shot in her home in the 700 block of Hawbrook Ave. in Glendale Monday morning. Her husband had called 911 shortly before 11 a.m. When police arrived, they found Catherine Murch and her two children, Mitchell III and Mary Claire, also shot. Media reports said the father, Mitchell II, was performing CPR on his son, while his wife was found dead in the kitchen, and his daughter was found dead upstairs. Earlier reports from Glendale police had the ages of the children wrong. The St. Louis Major Crimes Unit, which is …
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1:28 pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
It appears we are not being told the entire story. For a major depressant to kill both herself AND others is virtually unheard of. Either her illness isn't being fully disclosed (schizophrenia?) or maybe she felt there was no way for she and her kids to emerge from a hopeless situation of which we're unaware? If she did kill herself and kids but not her husband what was the reason behind it? Why … more ›