Robbie liked pretending to be a dinosaur, and could read chapter books by kindergarten. His mother remembers the 7-year-old as “super sweet” and “attention-getting goofy.”
William, 5, was mom’s “rough and tumble.” He was “loud and intense.” Happy.
Both are gone.
Their father killed them, according to the local sheriff.
“I am a very private person living through a nightmare,” said Liegh Ann Malone, the boys’ mother.
Around 2 a.m. on July 30, fire crews responded to a blaze at a home in the 1200 block of South White Oak Road, just outside Marshfield. Inside, they found three bodies — those of Robbie, William and their father, Robert Kinney, 45.
All three had a single gunshot wound to the chest. Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole has said he believes Kinney shot his children and set the house ablaze before turning the gun on himself.
Speaking to the News-Leader on Thursday, Malone described Kinney, whom she had recently divorced, in the months leading up to the deaths — and her own efforts to protect the children. [Read Full Article]
