GUILTY WA - Eric Cooper, 29, & Cooper Chen, 2, murdered, Seattle, 11 Aug 2011

It was supposed to be his first day at work at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, so when Louis Chen didn’t show up, a hospital worker went to the 17th floor of his high-rise apartment building and knocked on the door.

Chen, an endocrinologist, answered it nude, holding a box for cover. He was dirty with dried blood, and his right eye was swollen shut.

That morning of Aug. 11, 2011, prosecutors said, his penthouse was a grisly scene — bloodstained letters were scattered around the along with two lifeless bodies and five knives that were thought to be used in their deaths.

Chen, who was found with a cocktail of over-the-counter cold and cough medicines in his system, had been on a murderous rampage, prosecutors said. They said he brutally murdered his partner, 29-year-old Eric Cooper, stabbing him over and over in his face, neck and body. Then, they said, he turned to the couple’s 2-year-old son, Cooper, cutting the toddler’s throat from ear to ear, according to court documents

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