Area suffers a spike in murder-suicides

Published August 5, 2012 4:00am ET



The last image that Cynthia Hayward likely saw was the barrel of a gun before her husband pulled the trigger.

Thirty-two-year-old Frank Hayward also shot and killed their 2-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself in their home Tuesday.

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