Police describe methodical killings in hotel

The phone in the Parentes' 10th-floor hotel room rang just before midnight. By then, a mother and two daughters staying there had been beaten and asphyxiated by the man who answered the phone. Not long after taking that call - from a college roommate of his older daughter - the man used a knife to commit suicide.

By Julie Bykowicz | julie.bykowicz@baltsun.com

April 23, 2009