Christie Fradeneck (37) died along with her two children when her husband strangled each of them with a USB cable

[beli]

One by one, Timothy Fradeneck is accused of strangling his wife and their two young children with a USB cable as they slept inside their Eastpointe home.

He had been planning their murders since August, authorities said.

Then sometime between Sunday night and early Monday, Fradeneck told police "the opportunity presented itself," Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith said today.

Fradeneck, 37, is accused in the murders of his wife, Christie, 37; their daughter, Celeste, 2, and their son, Timothy, 8.


http://mydeathspace.com/article/2015...th_a_USB_cable

[beli]

[emylou]

"the opportunity presented itself"
So cold. I want to know more about this assholes behavior in his life and before this horrific and selfish crime.

rip Christie, Celeste and Timothy. Poor darlings

[Caffeinatedkat]

are you kidding me? the little girl no doubt could not have put up a fight but that boy, you know he was fully aware his father was killing him, that's nightmare shit. I can not possibly understand wanting to kill my family but for some reason if I had to, like fricken zombie apocalypse, I would do something totally non traumatic like carbon dioxide.

[YayMe]

He's fucking gross.

[bermstalker]

Kate Fradeneck said her brother was dealing with a mental illness and asked the public to keep him in their thoughts. The family members have not elaborated on Timothy Fradeneck's mental illness.
'Even with the poor choices that he made, please remember he's also lost his family,' she told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens. 'No one knows or can understand the pain that he is in.'


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[FamousLastWords]

'Even with the poor choices that he made, please remember he's also lost his family,' she told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens. 'No one knows or can understand the pain that he is in.'

Yeh he lost is family because he murdered them. Fuck him.

[kevansvault]

No one knows or can understand the pain he's in? HE IS IN? How about HER family? What kind of pain are THEY in? FUCK HIM!! Fuck what HE feels! I hope that piece of shit drops stone cold dead soon for no other reason than the fact that he is a family killing piece of human shit. You sorry, fat ass piece of shit.

[PeaceBeWithMe]

Are you fucking kidding me? Feel bad for him because he lost his family?

Fuck that shit.

Prove his mental illness to me and perhaps I'll feel bad for him for the mental illness, but I'll never feel for him for losing a family that he took because I truly don't believe that he's that mentally ill.

Fucker.

[becoming]

Oh God. This is horrible.

What a disgusting piece of shit. I can't believe someone totally normal-looking had sex with him. At least twice.

[blighted star]

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...ring/26538453/

An Eastpointe man accused of strangling his wife and their two young children with a USB cable as they slept inside their home is to have a preliminary exam May 26.

The exam for Timothy Fradeneck ? requested by Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor William Cataldo ? is expected to last less than an hour and include two police officers as witnesses. The date was set today during Fradeneck's probable cause conference in 38th District Court in Eastpointe.

Fradeneck, 38, is facing seven charges, including murder and child abuse, in the deaths of his wife, Christie, 37; their daughter, Celeste, 2, and their son, Timothy, 8.

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Police: Eastpointe dad strangled sleeping wife, kids

Authorities said he had been planning their murders since August. He told police "the opportunity presented itself" sometime between late April 12 and early April 13. He is being held in the Macomb County Jail without bond.

Fradeneck, dressed in a yellow jail jumper, simply answered "yes sir" to three questions posed to him by Judge Carl Gerds III. Neither Fradeneck's family nor the family of Christie Fradeneck wanted to speak after the hearing.

Defense attorney Steve Kaplan said he was willing to waive the preliminary exam to "spare the family the need to hear the gruesome details." Cataldo said the witnesses will be the first officer on scene and the interviewing officer.

During Fradeneck's arraignment, a detective told the court police went to the home in the 22000 block of Cushing April 13 to check the welfare of the mother and children. Timothy Fradeneck answered the door and said they were sleeping. Police refused to leave until they saw the children.

Fradeneck invited police inside, said his wife and children were dead and that he killed them using a USB cable, according to that testimony. He said the trio was found in their beds.

In early June, Kaplan said he will seek a referral to the forensic center for Fradeneck to have an exam for criminal responsibility. He said Fradeneck's mother is seeking to be power of attorney to take care of her son's finances, bills and debts.

[bermstalker]

Kaplan also said Fradeneck’s mother will request that she be granted power of attorney for her son in order to pay his bills and handle other finances.

This must mean he has some money or property.

He's in jail, his kids are dead, and his spouse is dead. What bills need to be paid?

I know his wife owned a hair salon. Also, if he was planning their murders for 8 mths- did they have life insurance?

[Jeneris]

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...able/27970817/

After strangling his 8-year-old son in their Eastpointe home last month, Timothy Fradeneck placed a black Lego in the boy's hand and told him it would be "OK."

The sad details of how Fradeneck killed his son, Timothy and also known as Trey to his family; his wife, Christie, 37, and their 2-year-old daughter, Celeste, as they slept in their home in the 22000 block of Cushing on April 13 were revealed during his preliminary examination on murder and child abuse charges. Only two witnesses were called, both police officers, but it was enough to bind Fradeneck over for trial in Macomb County Circuit Court.

Testimony from Detective Matthew Hambright, who interviewed Fradeneck for about an hour after the discovery of the bodies of the mother and two children, brought sobs to those in 38th District Court in Eastpointe, including relatives of Fradeneck and his wife.

Hambright testified that Fradeneck killed his wife, then his son -- who struggled a bit -- and finally his daughter, each by laying on them to force the air out of their lungs. Then, he testified, Fradeneck strangled them with a USB cable. Each victim was found in their bed.

Officer Randan Burkall, who was in his first week on the job with Eastpointe police, testified that each child was found with their head on a pillow and blanket up to their necklines. There were Legos and other toys strewn about Timothy's room, he testified.

Burkall told the court that Christie Fradeneck had her head on a pillow and a blanket up most of her upper torso. Hambright told the court that Fradeneck "tucked them in" after killing them.

Fradeneck was bound over on seven charges, with a June 15 arraignment in Macomb County Circuit Court. He continues to be held without bond.

No one from either family spoke after the exam.

The officers testified that Fradeneck, 38, told them he murdered his family and planned to kill himself, but failed.

Hambright testified that Fradeneck told police he killed his family "to spare them the heartache" of him killing himself.

Defense attorney Steve Kaplan said it is his contention that Fradeneck was "seriously mentally ill at the time of the incident to the extent that in his mind he was impelled to kill his family and himself. The essence of the defense is based on his extreme mental illness
Kaplan said Fradeneck has bipolar disorder and other mood disorders. He plans to ask for a forensic evaluation of criminal culpability at Fradeneck's arraignment.

During today's hearing, it was revealed that Fradeneck took 28 Klonopin a tranquilizer-like pill prescribed to him, the day of the murders.

Kaplan said while police gave Fradeneck food, water and rest before interviewing him April 14, they didn't do a blood exam to test for medication in his system. Medication, he said, could have affected Fradeneck's ability to waive or understand his rights before talking with police.

Kaplan said Fradeneck is "very contrite and remorseful."

"If he could travel back in time and erase what happened, he would," Kaplan said.

Burkall testified that he and another officer went to check on the welfare of Fradeneck's wife and children. He said Fradeneck ? who didn't make eye contact with the officers - initially asked why they were there.

Inside the home, Fradeneck told them his wife and children were in bed. When the officers asked to see the children, Fradeneck told them they didn't need to check on them "because they were dead."

"He indicated he had killed his family," Burkall testified.

The officer testified he saw six smoke detectors with the batteries removed and a smell of marijuana in the air.

Hambright said Fradeneck told him that he was at the police station "because I killed my family and I didn't kill myself fast enough."

Authorities said Fradeneck planned to kill his family since August, when he said he was released from the hospital for an unknown reason. Hambright testified that Fradeneck said April 13 presented an "opportunity" because his wife and kids were sleeping.

Fradeneck told Hambright that he tried to kill himself, taking the medication but fell asleep and then woke up. Fradeneck told him that he took the smoke detectors down because it was his intent to burn down the house. That didn't happen, Hambright testified, because Fradeneck fell asleep.

Fradeneck said he wanted to burn the house in "effigy and make it all go away," Hambright testified. He said Fradeneck indicated he wanted to be in the house when it burned because "he deserved that punishment."

Hambright testified that Fradeneck said he had financial issues and a battle with Medicare. That week, Fradeneck's children finally got coverage but he and his wife did not and they had at least a $4,000 bill, Hambright testified.

When Hambright asked Fradeneck if he was remorseful about killing his family he said "yes and no."

He also asked him why he strangled the trio.

"He wasn't trying to be cruel," Hambright testified.

[Ron_NYC]

Damn, the gun nuts are right. People really will find other ways.

[IzzyCooper]

Damn, the gun nuts are right. People really will find other ways.

But only if they can stay awake long enough.

[animosity]

Damn, the gun nuts are right. People really will find other ways.

ho, my goddess, ron read an article?

[raisedbywolves]

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...lego/81108816/

Man who killed wife, 2 kids: I failed as husband, dad

Family and friends tearfully held the photos above their heads in the packed courtroom, where Fradeneck admitted that he killed his wife and children and apologized, asking for forgiveness from a long list of people. Fradeneck said he "failed as a husband, as a father, as a son .... and as a member of the human race."

"I failed myself when I failed to protect my family from myself. I let the despair that I felt in my head eclipse the love I felt in my heart," Fradeneck, 38, told Judge Diane Druzinski, who sentenced him to life in prison without parole in the strangulation deaths of his family as they slept last year in their Eastpointe home.

[daisylane]

Okay, I may be alone, but I really have empathy here. Like, I just read the other one where both parents died, and everyone was pretty feely for them all - but because he was alive there's joy a lot of feels in here.

I think it's fucked. Yes. But even reading the initial story you can see he was fucked up. I need to read more into the planning, but this reads to me that he thought he was 'helping' - meaning he was out of his damn mind, not a selfish asshole like that bitch that shot her daughters etc.

I REALLLLY feel bad for officer Burkell - first week on the job, and this. Fucking hell. Those poor little angels and that poor woman. There's got to be more info on their relationship - my thoughts are she loved him and was trying to help him? Which makes it sadder.

[Bewitchingstorm]

I understand what you are saying, Daisy...but when I read his latest quotes when he was being sentenced, I couldn't help but think about how he made it all about himself. That is what bothers me.

[Deviant Toaster]

A couple of things make it hard for me to have empathy for this guy.

Hambright testified that Fradeneck told police he killed his family "to spare them the heartache" of him killing himself.

Yet he couldn't go through with killing himself after he killed them. I know that sounds harsh on my end, but this line of answering sounds self serving, rehearsed, and used for oh you poor thing.

And I agree with Bewitching about his him making it all about him. It is just odd that he went from suicidal (so he says) to murdering his family and is trying to use how he felt and why he did it to be the victim.

[daisylane]

A couple of things make it hard for me to have empathy for this guy.


Yet he couldn't go through with killing himself after he killed them. I know that sounds harsh on my end, but this line of answering sounds self serving, rehearsed, and used for oh you poor thing.

And I agree with Bewitching about his him making it all about him. It is just odd that he went from suicidal (so he says) to murdering his family and is trying to use how he felt and why he did it to be the victim.

Good points my girls. Yeah, i'll pay that - the 'sparing my family the heartache' line is gross. The sober light of Monday morning has given me some sad clarity here. I am too damn feely!!!

[Fleta]

Cops don't usually just knock on random doors for welfare checks. I wonder why they were there.

What medical issues were going on... hospitlization, Medicare, benzos, bipolar and "other" disorders... a lot of things going on here.

He SQUISHED them to death. Ugh.

[Deviant Toaster]

Cops don't usually just knock on random doors for welfare checks. I wonder why they were there.

What medical issues were going on... hospitlization, Medicare, benzos, bipolar and "other" disorders... a lot of things going on here.

He SQUISHED them to death. Ugh.

He squished them and then went on to strangle them. It reminds me of something you'd see on Criminal Minds. But it is also very heavy to take in that he did this to his family.

[Fleta]

I really want a push pop now.

[Lily Rivers]

It seems selfish to me as well. Everything he said makes me think he did this all for his own benefit. Including the way he killed them. You'd think he would have chose an easier death if it was too save them. Instead of squishing & strangling them. He let them know He was the killing them by the way he chose to go about it. That part is why I don't feel bad for him. So many easier choices could have been made, so they wouldn't suffer or know that 'daddy' was killing them.