SALT LAKE CITY (SONNA) \u2014 A Utah man who fatally shot his wife, her mother, and the couple\u2019s five kids\u00a0after he was\u00a0investigated for child abuse\u00a0left a suicide note saying he \u201cwould rather rot in hell\u201d than continue enduring what he called controlling behavior by his wife, investigators wrote in a report released on Friday.<\/p>\n
The claims in the suicide note left by Michael Haight, 42, stand in stark contract to conclusions by investigators in the 57-page report that overwhelmingly portray Haight, and not his wife, as controlling and abusive. The report cites the family\u2019s communications before the killings and interviews from community members conducted after the January tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is nonsense and I can\u2019t handle it for one more day. We will not be a burden on society. I kept asking for help and you wouldn\u2019t listen,\u201d Michael Haight, 42, wrote in the note included in the report released by the city of Enoch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would rather rot in hell than to put up with another day of this manipulation and control over me,\u201d Haight wrote.<\/p>\n
Haight\u2019s attorney, Matt Munson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.<\/p>\n
The report builds off documents released after the murder-suicide that detailed how Haight\u00a0removed firearms\u00a0from the home, was investigated on suspicion of child abuse, and\u00a0searched online for \u201cgunshot in a house\u201d\u00a0in the lead-up to the shootings.<\/p>\n
It paints a picture of Haight as a volatile husband concerned about maintaining a facade of perfection throughout the southern Utah community in which the family lived, where the majority of residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n
The report also details how bedding was laid over all but one of his children\u2019s bodies in bedrooms throughout the home. Body camera footage released along with the report shows a tidy home.<\/p>\n
Investigators also interviewed a neighbor who said she was awakened on the night before the eight bodies were discovered when she heard multiple \u201cbangs\u201d that she assumed were fireworks.<\/p>\n
The report describes the circumstances leading up to the killings, which took place two weeks after Haight\u2019s wife, Tausha Haight,\u00a0filed for divorce.<\/p>\n
People close to the Haights interviewed by investigators whose names were redacted in the report said that Michael Haight had lost his job at Allstate Insurance in nearby Cedar City, Utah and was seeking to start an independent agency.<\/p>\n
Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SALT LAKE CITY (SONNA) \u2014 A Utah man who fatally shot his wife, her mother, and the couple\u2019s five kids\u00a0after he was\u00a0investigated for child abuse\u00a0left a suicide note saying he \u201cwould rather rot in hell\u201d than continue enduring what he called controlling behavior by his wife, investigators wrote in a report released on Friday. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":415946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415964,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415945\/revisions\/415964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}