GUILTY OK - Summer Rust, 25, & her 4 kids strangled, El Reno, 12 Jan 2009

[fran]

A man being sought in connection with the deaths of an Oklahoma woman and her four young children was captured in Texas on Tuesday night, authorities said.

Joshua Steven Durcho, 25, was taken into custody in Texas' Hamilton County, said Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown.

http://cbs13.com/national/Joshua.Steven.Durcho.2.907683.html

Thank you chico!

What a sad case.

Why?


fran

 

[colette]

So sad, I guess the killer was her "bad boy" boyfriend who has been in and out of jail his entire adult life. This article says Summer, the mother was nice to everyone... picture of the killer enclosed.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BODIES_FOUND?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

 

[jblfelines]

Looks like they got the perp.
http://cbs4.com/topstories/Joshua.Steven.Durcho.2.907683.html

EL RENO, Okla. (AP) ―
A man being sought in connection with the deaths of an Oklahoma woman and her four young children was captured in Texas on Tuesday night, authorities said.

Joshua Steven Durcho, 25, was taken into custody in Texas' Hamilton County, said Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown.

 

[cynsational]

A KOCO broadcast just said the cause of death was asphyxiation. The suspect was caught after wrecking the car.
How can someone strangle a mom and four children? What a monster.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

Your welcome, any cases i come across that i feel may be of interest to Websleuthians, i will post. Looks like the husband is the culprit in this one :furious:
It's so selfish, its sounds horrible, yet why not these husbands just kill themselves, rather than massacre their whole families, it's so sad.

Durcho wasn't married to her, was he?

imoo

 

[lizzybeth]

I guess it doesn't necessarily mean he manually smothered the mother and her four children. He could have used some type of gas.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=asphyxiation

 

[rccook555]

EL RENO, Okla. -- An El Reno man choked a young mother and her four children to death, according to a police affidavit released Wednesday morning.

Joshua Steven Durcho, 25, is being held with no bond in Hamilton County, Texas, in the deaths of Summer Garas, 25, and her daughters, Kirsten Rust, 7; Autumn Rust, 6; and Evynn Garas, 3; and her son, Teagin Rust, 4.

A hearing was scheduled for 9 a.m

More at link
http://www.koco.com/cnn-news/18466097/detail.html

 

[cynsational]

I guess it doesn't necessarily mean he manually smothered the mother and her four children. He could have used some type of gas.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=asphyxiation

Local broadcasts on KFOR and KOCO have reported he confessed to a friend about choking Summer to death. The ME has released COD on Summer and 4 year old Teagin as having been strangled with a ligature. Autopsies not complete yet on the other 3 children.

http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=9664861
http://www.koco.com/cnn-news/18466097/detail.html

 

[believe09]

What kind of strength does it take to strangle 5 people to death in one house?

 

[lizzybeth]

Not so much being as four of them were small children. I still don't understand how he could have strangled all of them by himself. The oldest was seven, she could have ran for help. Were they asleep when he killed their mother? Then he one by one killed them?

 

[Larkin]

"SCRANTON, Kan. | The Kansas fire marshal says arson caused the fire at a home where three children and one adult were found dead.The fire was reported at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the northeast Kansas town of Scranton, located in Osage County about 20 miles southwest of Topeka.
Details on the victims, the arson and what caused the deaths had not been released late Monday."
http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/978240.html

The people living in the house were a husband, wife and their 3 children. 4 bodies found, that means one of them is missing..

Why was this post (and the subsequent ones) in this thread? They're not the same crime, not even the same state (one in Kansas, one in Oklahoma.)

 

[MeoW333]

Why was this post (and the subsequent ones) in this thread? They're not the same crime, not even the same state (one in Kansas, one in Oklahoma.)

Ever since you joined Websleuths, Larkin, you've been very bitter regarding different cases you've posted about. Is there anything in your personal life bothering you that you'd like to talk about in the "Parking Lot" forum?
I've noticed this, and i hope other posters notice it as well.

 

[MeoW333]

Larkin, that was were my missing post was lol i had meant to start a new thread and put it in here. Why do you get so angry over minor things?

 

[MeoW333]

http://newsok.com/article/3338790

"Before Summer Rust died and prosecutors charged her boyfriend in connection with her death and the deaths of her four children, the 25-year-old mother had been attending domestic violence and sexual assault education classes."

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Josh Durcho, 25, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the deaths in El Reno. He listed ICP — short for Insane Clown Posse — as his only musical interest on the Web site MySpace.

On one arm he has tattooed the words "Wicked Clown’o.”

http://www.newsok.com/el-reno-suspe...rticle/3338792 ?custom_click=lead_story_title

 

[MeoW333]

This is one of many times we've seen killers who affiliate themselves with that Insane Clown Posse group and the like! They call themselves "juggalos"

 

[Bobbisangel]

Larkin, that was were my missing post was lol i had meant to start a new thread and put it in here. Why do you get so angry over minor things?

She doesn't sound angry to me...just asking a question. I was going to ask the same question because I was reading about one family and then the whole article changed and was talking about someone else. It got pretty confusing. No one is mad about it though. Just took a bit to figure out that it was two different familys that had been murdered.

 

[Bobbisangel]

He was the boyfriend...why would he have wanted to murder those little kids?
He wouldn't be hurting the mother by killing her children because he killed her too. It just doesn't make any sense. I don't think he had a history of violence did he? I know he had been in plenty of trouble but nothing violent. What in the world set him off? Maybe she told him to hit the road and he didn't like it.
I hope this mom didn't have to watch her children murdered one by one.

This one should get the death penalty...five people :furious:

 

[cynsational]

This sexually assaulted the two little girls prior to murdering them.
Complaint can be read here:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.newsok.com/documents/m19durchodoc0001.pdf

Story:

http://newsok.com/prosecutors-will-...article/3371123?custom_click=lead_story_title

I am sure he will get the death penalty in Oklahoma. Oklahoma executes prisoners at a higher rate per capita than any other state and most nations including China and Iran.

 

[southcitymom]

Thank you for this update, cynsational. What a terrible and sad case this is.