Mother Kills Son, Then Burns Their House Down & Commits Suicide Following Breakup [PHOTO]

In a murder-suicide case that has rocked Indiana, a 46-
year-old mom reportedly depressed over a breakup

Killed her son, then set their house on fire and shot
herself to death.
Carla Gilliland had gunned down her son Parker
Gilliland-Wampler, 15, and their dead bodies were
discovered inside their burning house in Ellettsville,
Indiana on Thursday [July 10].
The Monroe County Coroner has ruled Parker’s death a
homicide, and his mother’s death a suicide. A source
told Indianapolis news station WTHR that Gilliland had
hit a rough patch over a “family breakup”, while
Sheriff’s Detective Sgt Brad Swain said Gilliland had
been recently embroiled in “domestic issues” involving
Gilliland and Parker’s father and had hinted about
wanting to hurt herself and the boy.
A neighbor said, “She’s just been sad lately, depress
[ed]. Some issues she didn’t share. [We] tried to help
out as much as we could. It’s just a tragedy.”
But Gilliland’s daughter Katie has charged that the
crime was preventable, as police apparently didn’t
intervene when Parker expressed concern about his
mom’s behavior and they had visited the home.
Katie Gilliland, Parker’s older sister, wrote on
Facebook that cops simply didn’t act: “I would like
everyone to know. That the system failed,” she wrote.
“It failed me. And it most certainly failed my baby
brother. CPS and [Sheriff's] department were aware
that [P]ark was afraid for his life to be in that house…
Yet they made him go back.”
via Radar Online