Mar 12, 2009 4:22 pm US/Eastern
New Details In Murder Suicide Of Miami-Dade Family
Amador Told His Son "I Love You" Before He Pulled The Trigger
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A father and wife, and two daughters were found shot to death Wednesday in their Southwest Miami-Dade home.
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He loved his family to death. That would appear to be among the findings in the Miami-Dade medical examiner's report on a triple murder and suicide that destroyed a south Miami-Dade family. The report also seems to corroborate earlier reports of a terrible dysfunction in a home that, from the outside, appeared perfectly normal.
Before killing himself and after murdering his wife and two youngest daughters on February 25th, music teacher Pablo Amador's last words were words of endearment, according to medical examiner's report.
The report says that Amador's 16 year old son, Javier, heard gunshots on the morning of the bloodbath. According to the report, the boy said his father appeared at his bedroom door, pointed a gun at him and said, "I love you," before firing a shot which missed. The son told investigators that his father then shot and killed himself. The teenager found his mother and sisters in other areas of the house and called 911.
According to the M.E., Amador's body was found in the hallway outside the son's bedroom. The body of his wife, Maria, 47, was found in a bedroom. She had been shot in the back of the head at point blank range. The daughters, 13 year old Rosa and 14 year old Priscila, were found in the bed they shared in a front room of the house. Both had been shot in the head. Gunpowder residue on the youngest daughter's arms and hands would suggest she had raised them in an effort to defend herself.
The coroner's report quotes the son as saying his parents had a private meeting with his sister, Priscila, the night before the mayhem. The father told the son he would share the topic of the meeting the next day. Instead, the boy said, Amador arrived at the house about 5:45 a.m. and the shooting began. It is not clear where Amador had been before he arrived at the house, or under what circumstances he had left. Miami-Dade police declined to comment on the report.
The M.E.'s report said that on the night before the killings Priscila Amador posted an entry to a social website reading, "It's over. I'm free."
After the murders, a classmate of Priscila's told
CBS4 Reporter Gary Nelson that Priscila had confided in her a few weeks before that "throughout her life, her father would sexually abuse her." The classmate said the girl had revealed the alleged abuse only to one other friend and that Priscila was afraid to tell her mother.
The classmate said Priscila had talked of suicide. "She didn't want to live anymore," the girl said. "She told me that she had cut herself," the weekend before the murders, and had come to school wearing long sleeves to conceal it.
The medical examiner's report would seem to corroborate the classmate's story. The autopsy revealed multiple "linear abrasions" on the insides of Priscila Amador's forearms.
Child welfare officials last month expressed dismay that the parents of two of Priscila's classmates were apparently aware of the alleged sexual abuse and did not report it.
Pablo Amador taught music in the family's green and white home on Southwest 98th Court. The medical examiner's report described a variety of musical instruments in the home - keyboards and guitars. The report describes two, detached structures behind the home that apparently served as music rooms. One of them is soundproof. All of the Amador children were musicians. His son had recently been selected to play in the concert orchestra at Coral Reef Senior High School. His eldest daughter, Bea, who was not home at the time of the murders, is a music major at the University of Miami.
Amador's wife, Maria, was the director of education at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
Neighbors, informed Thursday of details in the autopsy reports, said there was nothing to suggest trouble in the Amador house where music was a staple and everything seemed harmonious.
"They were happy," said Mike Jackson, who lives across the street. "They were a perfectly happy family."
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