Officer Raped, Killed His Wife, Children and Mother-in-Law After She Threatened to Take Children Away
A Utah police officer who killed his wife, their two children, his mother-in-law and then himself had received text messages from his wife threatening to expose the fact that he had raped her repeatedly and that she was taking their children away from him. The next day he used his service weapon to kill his family and then himself in a horrible tragedy.
Kelly Boren told her husband Joshua that she knew and had evidence that he had drugged and raped her repeatedly. She discovered videotapes of the assaults in 2013 but did not report them for fear of damaging her husband's reputation and career. However, in January, she finally decided to confront Joshua, the Deseret News reported.
"You (expletive) drugged and raped me. I hate my life because (of) you," she texted him. "You killed a part of me. I don't want to live in fear and hate and anger."
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The following morning, she told Joshua that she was taking the children away from him, which did not sit well with the officer.
"Don't involve the kids, they are innocent," Joshua texted.
The two apparently worked things out and Joshua was due to pick up the children and then drop them off at Kelly's house. He went to work, and 45 minutes before his shift ended, he Googled the terms "America's most brutal serial killers" and "narcissism," reports state.
He sent his mother a final text message: "I hope you are having a good day. Have a long and healthy life."
Joshua then went to Kelly's home and methodically shot her, their children Joshua "Jaden" Borne, 7; Haley Boren, 5; and his mother-in-law, Marie King, 55, before turning the gun on himself. The community of Spanish Fork was left stunned by the actions of the officer known to be a "teddy bear." But new information in the official report about the case shows a man that was deeply disturbed and had a history of violent fantasies and sexual assault.
The officer was sexually abused as a child and had a drug addiction. He told his therapist that he often had fantasies of "drugging and having sex with Kelly and other women regularly."
Those fantasies turned into reality, as friends testified that he drugged Kelly with Ambien and then sexually assaulted her at least five times. He videotaped the entire ordeal, and Kelly found the tapes, but police did not. When she confronted him, he was quite upset and took action.
"Josh was a very troubled individual that felt like he was about to lose his wife and children," police wrote in the official report.
