Three Sheets of Paper and a Scary Note Helped Massachusetts Police Figure Out Who Killed a Wealthy Family in Their Home
A new story has some disturbing new information about the murder-suicide of a family from Massachusetts who seemed to be very wealthy. They were all found shot to death in their huge $4 million mansion at the end of last year.
Teena Kamal, 54, and Arianna Kamal, 18, were sleeping in their beds when Rakesh “Rick” Kamal, 57, shot them and killed them. It was three days after Christmas. Then, the Boston Globe said, he got into a bathroom, pulled the gun, and shot himself.
Outsiders thought the Kamals were wealthy, but they were actually deeply in debt. On the day of the killings, they were supposed to be kicked out of their 11-bedroom Dover house on five acres of land.
A 63-page police report from the local newspaper says that when police went to the house on Dec. 28 after getting a 911 call, they found a written note addressed to the person who was supposed to pick up the keys.
“Please take note,” it said. “Call the police to check out three bedrooms on the second floor before you go inside.” A white piece of paper will be put in each room to show where it is.
The bodies of all three people were found behind those marked doors.
The planned killings shocked family members and shocked the rich people in the area.
Rick Kamal was known as a rich businessman and loving father in Dover, a suburb of Boston.
But even though they seemed wealthy, the family was deeply in debt and under a lot of stress.
This was three months before the killings. Rick had filed for bankruptcy and been given a notice of eviction. He owed his brother Manoj $150,000. The brother or sister had given the loans to the brother in several $5,000 payments, according to the Globe.
The broke businessman’s mother also gave him money, but he spent it all and left her with almost nothing.
Concerned about their rising debt, Teena recently told Manoj that she wanted to “drive their family off a cliff due to the recent stress they were under,” as the story says.
Manoj found the bodies and called the police. He then told the police that his brother had been lying for years.
“Everything [Manoj] has said to Rakesh in the last five years he thinks was a lie,” their sister told the cops.
When the Kamals bought their huge house, Marybeth Bisson, who built it, also paid for it.
She told the police that Rick had started making up reasons for not making his mortgage payments and begged her not to tell his wife about it.
There was a fax sent to Teena’s $1.25 million life insurance company on December 23, five days before the killings, adding Manoj as a recipient.
The Globe said that on Christmas Day, the Kamales talked on FaceTime with family in India. There was nothing unusual about the message.
The next day, Rick texted his brother to cancel a planned get-together. He also texted Arianna’s boyfriend to tell him not to come over to visit.
The boyfriend told the cops that Arianna had told him about some of her family’s problems. At one point, she hinted that Teena wanted to leave her father, but that things seemed to be getting better.
At the same time, Rick was in regular contact with the builder of his home to talk about leaving.
Manoj went to the house called “Enchanted Acres” and called 911 because he hadn’t heard from his brother in a few days.
Records show that the Kamals paid just under $4 million for the home. Zillow says the 20,000-square-foot property is worth about $7 million.