For months, residents of McLean, Virginia, believed that the shooting deaths of a mother and daughter were the result of a murder-suicide.
That impression has now been replaced by fears of a murderer on the loose. Though authorities initially thought 23-year-old Helen Hargan killed her mother, 63-year-old Pamela Hargan, in the laundry room of the family home before shooting herself in an upstairs bedroom on July 14, a search warrant filed a week after the shootings and unsealed this week reveals a very different theory.
Namely, that Pamela Hargan and her youngest of three daughters were murdered before the scene was "altered and staged," WUSA reports.
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