DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ala., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Three men and a woman found dead in a car in a rural area in Alabama last week left suicide notes denying child pornography charges, police said Monday.
The bodies were discovered Wednesday, the day Robert Hamrick, 30, and his ex-wife, Kristie Hamrick, 39, were scheduled to go on trial in Tennessee, WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Ala., reported. The other men were identified as Kristie Hamrick's brother, Andy Keith Hunt, 38, and Kevin Carey, 30, a friend who lived at the same address as the other three in Savannah, Tenn.
Rick Harris, the sheriff in Winston County, Ala., said four notes were found in the car. Each one protested innocence and outlined the funeral arrangements the writer wanted.
Hunt and Carey were under investigation for child pornography but only the Hamricks had been charged, officials said.
Harris said the car and the bodies were discovered Wednesday night near Double Springs, a small town in northern Alabama and the county seat. Investigators have determined Hunt shot the other three with a 12-gauge shotgun and then took his own life.
"Well, every investigator that night said they'd never seen anything as bad," Harris said.
