Wings of a Bird

Clues to Killings -- but no Answers
Nobody Saw Warnings of Father's Murder-suicide
Along the road of divorce and a bitter custody battle, Kelsey and Hayley Byrne became part of their father's twisted end game -- a plan of murder-suicide carried out early Monday afternoon in a quiet Edmonds neighborhood.
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While there were never any allegations of physical abuse, concerns about Byrne's temper were raised years ago during the difficult divorce from Dawson.
"He was unwilling to examine the effect his outbursts had (or would have) on his children," Terry Douglass, a marital counselor who saw the couple in 1998, wrote in a declaration filed as part of the divorce proceedings.
Douglass, who suggested Byrne consider an anger management program, said he sometimes directed his angry outbursts at his wife and sometimes at her.
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As a neighbor, she watched as he taught his children how to ride bikes, pushed them on a swing or played ball with them. ...
"He was distraught over not being able to live with his children," [his neighbor] said. "As far as we could see, he was a good father. He played with his children often and they all seemed to enjoy each other so much."