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Mom, 3 children moved to Florida with her boyfriend. He killed them all.

Mom, 3 children moved to Florida with her boyfriend. He killed them all.

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Renee Flhery's brother says that Jeffrey Hutchinson promised to take care of her and her three children before moving from Washington to Florida. And then he shot a terrible night in 1998.

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Renee Flaherty did her best to take care of her three children.

Although it was not always “a lot on the shelves”, the rural post providers and the single Eastern Washington Mama worked hard to put food on the table and loved her children very much, said her brother Wesley Elmore.

“Her children had a priority. She made sure that her children were fed and looked after,” said Elmore.

Then Flaherty Jeffrey Hutchinson met. On paper he was a war hero that had served as a ranger of the US Army in the Gulf War. But in the end he murdered Flaherty and the children: 9-year-old Geoffrey, 7-year-old Amanda and 4-year-old Logan.

Now, more than two decades later, Hutchinson is carried out on Thursday by fatal injection for the murders in Florida. When he lives his last hours, USA Today looks back who should honor Flaherty and her children.

A broken promise

The last time Elmore saw his sister shortly before Thanksgiving in 1997, he felt that the family was in “Good Hands” with Hutchinson when they prepared to move to Florida.

“I hugged Renee and the children and everything, goodbye,” said Elmore to USA Today. “I remember that I shaked Jeff's hand and I said: 'Take care of my sister and her children' and he says: 'Wes, I promise.'”

Months later, the 32-year-old Flahery and her children were found dead in their house, and according to court documents, Hutchinson was sprayed with blood and in drowsiness on the garage floor.

The 62 -year -old Hutchinson was convicted because he had fatally shot the family of four.

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Renee Flaherty, Tomboy, who served as an emotional support

Elmore described his sister as a wild catch, whose upbringing with three brothers made her hard.

“When we were children, we were skiing earlier. I and they were. She would crash and she would laugh,” said Elmore. “She is my little sister, but it's like hanging around with another buddy.”

Elmore was divorced when Flaherty separated from her husband. Elmore owed her to have helped him navigate through the turbulent time.

“It was difficult, but it was my rock,” said Elmore. “When I grew up, she was always a person with whom I always speak and with whom I could trust.”

Elmore remembered a time when Elmore's son and Flahery's 9-year-old son Geoffrey tried almost stereotypes to remove the heads from the Barbie dolls from Flahery's 7-year-old daughter Amanda. “They found it funny and Renee was only angry with both boys … they were children, just mischievous.”

As far as Flahery's 4-year-old son Logan is concerned, he had a knack for exploiting the 5 hectare house of the family in East Washington.

“There were times when Logan just walked around underwear and a few rubber boots, (Renee was) like: 'You know, I dressed him this morning morning, so he had clothes on.'”

Elmore noticed that the children were never allowed to become adults and that he mourns the milestones that they did not reach.

“Logan was only 4 years old and he had no chance of starting school, you know,” said Elmore. “Geoffrey, Amanda, had no chance of ending the elementary school. They were robbed, they were robbed by many things.”

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What happened to Renee Flahery and her children?

In the night of September 11, 1998, Hutchinson fought with Flaherty, then he packed some of his clothes and weapons in his truck and, according to court records, went to a bar.

The bartender said Hutchinson told him that Flaherty was angry with him, while other witnesses said that he ruthlessly drove when he went.

Hutchinson then returned home, “broken” the front door and shot Flaherty, Amanda and Logan in the main bedroom, a forensic pathologist said from the court documents. Hutchinson recently shot Geoffrey both in the chest and in the head, while the child “see his mother, sister and brother's body”.

“The terror suffered at this moment is incomprehensible to this dish,” said Hutchinson's process judge, according to Associated Press.

Hutchinson called the police and said to a dispatcher: “I just shot my family.” Since then, Hutchinson has claimed that the murders of two house invaders were committed and that the family was killed in a fight.

The army's veteran was diagnosed as a golf war syndrome, but the legal judge decided it to fear the court proceedings.

Maria Incento, Executive Director of Floridians for alternatives for the death penalty and the connection for hutchinson's legal team, said USA Today that there are considerable questions about Hutchinson's competence to be executed.

“There should be a break to have a complete, fair and complete hearing in order to determine the importance of its long -term mental illness and brain damage and how this affects his ability at the time of the legal proceedings, his conviction and the effects of continuing with this execution,” said Centato.

Brother finds justice, but no closure with execution

Elmore and his brother Darran will experience the execution if they are carried out. He said that he believes that Hutchinson “easily goes out” in view of the brutal nature of murders.

“This is expected for a long time … Now that he is concerned, I am actually glad that things are going to happen now. It is justice.”

After the condemnation in 2001, his feeling reflects a statement by Melva Elmore, Renee and Wesley's mother.

Elmore said he didn't think he will find closure with the execution.

“People who don't go to my shoes, they don't understand this closure, you never understand it,” said Elmore. “But at least I know that part of this chapter is now over because justice has finally served.”

This story has been updated to fix a typing error and enter video.

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