MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 This week of death, bloody death, and even more bloody death kicks off with a 911 call, made today at 5:13 p.m. from a house in Carnation, Washington. As the Seattle Times reports, the 911 dispatcher who took the call heard "a lot of yelling in the background" before the line went dead; after two return calls to the home went directly to voice mail, the dispatcher sent deputies to investigate. Cops arrived at the isolated rural property and were confronted by a gate. "Gate is locked, unable to gain access," reported the deputies before leaving—a retreat made tragic by the impending revelation that six people were in the middle of being murdered in the house at the time of the 911 call. The victims spanned three generations of one family: 60-year-old Wayne Anderson and his 61-year-old wife, Judy; Wayne and Judy's 32-year-old son, Scott, and his 32-year-old wife, Erica; and Scott and Erica's 5-year-old daughter, Olivia, and 3-year-old son, Nathan, all of whose bodies will be found the day after tomorrow by a friend of the family. The alleged killers: Michele Anderson—the victims' 29-year-old daughter/sister/aunt—and her 29-year-old boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, who'll spend the day after the day after tomorrow telling police the details of their Christmas Eve massacre. Long story short: After arming themselves with a 9 mm handgun and a .357-caliber Magnum, Anderson and McEnroe walked the 200 yards from their mobile home to the house of Michele's parents. Within 30 minutes, the young couple had murdered the old couple and dragged their corpses to a backyard shed. Soon after, brother Scott Anderson and his family arrived for a Christmas Eve visit—and were promptly and fatally gunned down as well. The murdering couple was reportedly planning to escape to Canada on Wednesday when they mysteriously stopped by the crime scene—which was now swarming with law enforcement—and were arrested on suspicion of homicide. On Thursday, the couple will be denied bail and made to stay in the King County Jail until Friday, when both Michele Anderson and Joseph McEnroe will be charged with six counts of aggravated first-degree murder.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 In lighter news (only one person dies): The week continues with a freaky and ultimately fatal happening on I-5, which first made itself known, like yesterday's tragedy, through a 911 call. Actually, it was several 911 calls, all from travelers on I-5 through Federal Way, who reported seeing a man on the freeway who had stripped off his pants and was swinging his belt at passing cars. Washington State troopers arrived to find 28-year-old Aaron Larson pants-less and wielding his belt like a whip. After Larson failed to obey orders and attacked an officer, he was Tasered. When Tasing didn't work, he was shot dead. RIP Aaron Larson, whom follow-up reports will characterize as a depressed and under-pressure guy who one day just lost it. (Also: Merry Christmas.)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 Last Days' week of endless blood continues in San Francisco, where today investigators cordoned off a portion of the San Francisco Zoo as a crime scene as they sought to determine how a Siberian tiger escaped its pen yesterday for a Christmas Day rampage that left one man dead and critically injured two others. Details come from the Associated Press, which identifies the dead man as Carlos Sousa Jr., a 17-year-old from San Jose. Also killed: the tiger that killed Sousa, a 350-pound Siberian named Tatiana, who was fatally shot by police. And while initial reports strained to suggest the attack was somehow provoked, the San Francisco Chronicle will tomorrow point the finger at the zoo, which allowed the installation of an insufficiently high wall around the moat separating the tigers from their would-be victims. Expect plummeting zoo attendance and gargantuan settlements.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 When it rains, it pours: Last Days Kill Week continues with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader who was either fatally shot, killed by shrapnel, or fatally injured in a suicide blast as she left a campaign rally today. (The exact cause of death remained undetermined at press time.) Meanwhile in Seattle: This afternoon a woman parked her pickup truck in Belltown—on Fourth Avenue near Wall Street, to be precise—and fatally shot herself in the chest. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports, the woman's body was spotted by a passerby who assumed she was passed out drunk. After firefighters broke the passenger-side window, they learned the gnarly truth. RIP, Benazir Bhutto and lonely Belltown suicide.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 "I was surprised that Last Days said nothing about the 150–200 Santas—or people loosely dressed as Santa—who caused holiday havoc on streets and in bars along Northeast 45th Street from Wallingford to the U-District a week and a half ago Saturday," writes Hot Tipper Ariss. "From what I could tell and from what a bartender at Kate's Pub told me, they were lighting roman candles into the street, drinking on the sidewalk, and smokin' herb in the women's restroom. Go crazy, drunken Santas!" Last Days imagines Ariss is referring to some Seattle spin on Santanarchy, the drunken Santa celebration inspiring late-December rampages around the globe. However, thanks to an unfortunate collision of national holidays and printer deadlines, both last week's and this week's Last Days columns were due before the week was over, leaving us to forecast news to come or vamp on years gone by or somehow otherwise fill these weeks' Saturday and Sunday items. Forecasting was boring (obviously, Pope Benedict XVI will be caught boning a goat), vamping was only so entertaining, and either way legitimate occurrences—such as Seattle's Santanarchy parade—would be lost to the ages. Thanks for the reminder, Ariss. Full, real-time Last Days will commence next week.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29 Nothing happened today, for reasons explained above.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30 This week of stunning bloodshed ends with a thematically suitable but pointedly nondistressing commemoration of the day's notable deaths, including the 2006 execution of now-we-love-him-now-we-don't Iraqi dictator/South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut scene-stealer Saddam Hussein, the 1974 legal dissolution of the world's most gifted rock band the Beatles (a mere four years after Paul "Holy Christ I'm a Dick" McCartney instigated proceedings), and the 2003 death of celebrated American writer/instigator of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking John Gregory Dunne. recommended

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