Man kills both parents and lives with their corpses for five days before killing himself
A reclusive Microsoft employee reportedly murdered his parents and lived with their rotting corpses for five days before killing himself, reports said.
Matthew Ficken reportedly killed his Seattle-based real estate agent mother Lorraine Ficken and historian father Robert Ficken on January 10, but waited until deputies came to the house to do a welfare check on January 15 to kill himself.
The Seattle Times quoted 68-year-old Lorraine’s brother-in-law John Mance as saying that she and her 72-year-old husband, who wrote books on Washington's early history, were found with gunshot wounds on Tuesday afternoon in their Sammamish, Washington home, worth approximately $700,000.
Matthew’s body was found next to them. King County Medical Examiner's Office concluded that Matthew’s death was a suicide.
According to Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ryan Abbott, Matthew always lived at home and was unhappy with his mother’s plans to sell their home, even though he was given more than enough money to start living on his own. Abbott said, “From what the family tells us, he just couldn't take it for some reason and didn't want the house he grew up in from being sold from underneath him. And for some reason he shot and killed his parents over this.”