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On Monday morning, thebodies of Joseph Zaccardi, his wife Deirdre,and their three children — daughter Alexis, 11, and twins Nathaniel and Kathryn, 9 — were discovered. They had all been shot.
On Wednesday, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz announced Joseph Zaccardi was the murderer,CBS,CNNand theBoston Heraldreport.
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After officials arrived at the scene, they located the four other bodies in the condo.
According to his Facebook page, Joseph, 43, was a children’s book author who appeared to be struggling with his career. At the time of his death, Joseph had listed his occupation on Facebook as “unemployed and going crazy.”
In April 2017, Josephannounced that he had published his third book,All Mixed Up,which was available to purchase on Amazon.
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Deirdre, meanwhile, worked as the office manager of EMI Strategic Marketing, a Boston marketing consulting firm, for nearly two decades.
The investigation remains ongoing, Cruz said.
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source: people.com
