ANDRI TAMBUNAN
An extended-awaited Thanksgiving feast become an unimaginable nightmare for one New Mexico household after out-of-town family members arrived to search out the host “dismembered and disemboweled.”
Members of the family of Karlan and Connie Denio at the moment are left struggling to make sense of how the deliberate vacation ended with him below arrest for her homicide.
The day had appeared to be going precisely as deliberate whereas family members made their method to the couple’s house in Albuquerque on Thursday afternoon, with Connie Denio “discussing plans for Thanksgiving” in a gaggle chat with members of the family, in response to the Albuquerque Journal.
However as soon as members of the family arrived on the Denios’ house, they observed it appeared unusually empty, prompting a 911 name and a frantic request for a welfare test, the Journalstories. After police stated they couldn’t use power to enter the premises, family members discovered their very own method in: eradicating a door from its hinges.
As soon as inside, Karlan Denio’s sister found him mendacity in mattress and his spouse Connie “dismembered” on a bed room flooring, police stated.
Karlan Denio, 62, now faces a homicide cost in his spouse’s loss of life, in response to Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court docket data.
The Journal stories that family members advised investigators he was recognized with frontotemporal dementia simply two years in the past, a devastating illness that may trigger drastic character modifications.
It was not clear as of Saturday if he had retained a lawyer. A spokesperson for the Albuquerque Police Division was quoted telling the Journal that Denio is presently being handled in a hospital for lacerations.
Wealthy Cordova, a neighbor, advised the information outlet he was “surprised” by the slaying, describing the couple as “good of us” whom he “would least count on” to undergo such a destiny.
He stated the couple had two grown kids, although it wasn’t instantly clear if that they had proven up for the Thanksgiving dinner.
Different members of the family took to social media to specific their shock on the gut-wrenching flip of occasions.
“So our Thanksgiving festivities didn’t finish in any respect had all of us deliberate,” one relative wrote on Fb, asserting that Aunt Connie Denio “was tragically taken from this earth.”
“Please pray for fast/prolonged household/pals throughout this very tough time as they attempt to discover peace and luxury within the coming days,” she wrote.
One other relative shared an previous photograph of Connie Denio perching in a tree with two younger kids: “That is how I'll all the time bear in mind my aunt Connie… Not afraid to climb a tree in a costume.”
Different family members mourned Karlan Denio as effectively, sharing recollections of how he was earlier than his prognosis.
“In reminiscence of two stunning folks. RIP,” a feminine relative wrote.