Man may have killed family before starting wildfire, suicide

Monday, October 18, 2004

BRENTWOOD, Calif. -- Preliminary information suggests that a man who apparently committed suicide after setting a fire in Yosemite National Park had earlier killed his wife and two young daughters, police said Sunday.

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