THE COMEBACK:

I’M IN CHARGE!

WOULD THAT BE A POSITIVE

OR NEGATIVE CHARGE UP THE WAZOO?

THE MESSAGE:

Today’s generation seems to be encumbered by concerns of entitlement and suspicion. The news is filled with stories of siblings locked in bitter disputes, and hatred. Some even detail the murder of a parent in order to acquire control of a business. Others make use of rumours and innuendo to further their own perception of what is deserved. The sad reality is basically that the family is broken and irreparable. Is there an answer? Our world is undergoing drastic changes, some of which will never be overcome or resolved. Love has been replaced with fear, selfishness and jealousy. The most common reaction to tragedy today is motivated by self interest and finger pointing. Some are quick to accept falsehood and tainted observations instead of showing empathy and understanding.

TONY TODAY:

A FAMILY MASSACRE

Moniruz Zaman, came to Canada from Bangladesh, seeking a better life for himself and future children. It was the late 1980s, and his parents arranged his marriage to Momotaz Begum, a Bangladeshi , who followed him to Canada. Together they had two kids, a son, Menhaz, and a daughter named Malesa. They subscribed to the theory that a good education would lead to a good job and that would ensure a good life.

The son, Menhaz Zaman was always considered to be a good boy, obedient, respectful and studious. until the night he confessed to slaughtering his entire family with a crowbar.

After an up and down life experience for him, Menhaz acted out. “I’ve just slaughtered my entire family,” he wrote to his friends. At first, they thought he was joking. His posts seemed familiar, gallows humour from a well-known forum troll. It was only when he started sending them photos of the dead bodies that they realized he was serious. If convicted, Menhaz Zaman will fall into a specific classification of mass murderers known as family annihilators. Most often, family annihilators are white men in their late 20s or early 30s. Sometimes they’re husbands and fathers who want to escape the shackles of domestic life; other times they are coping with financial hardship and try to convince themselves their families are better off dead than ruined. Parricide, the murder of a parent, is far more often committed by a son, and it usually happens at home.

THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS who murdered their parents. Lyle and Erik Menendez shot their parents, Jose and Kitty, to death in the den of the family's Beverly Hills, California, home.

LYLE MELENDEZ

They then drove up to Mulholland Drive, where they dumped their shotguns before continuing to a local movie theater to buy tickets as an alibi.

A TREND?

Some of the most chilling murders in recent history have taken place between family members, including the case of the Memphis mother who slashed four of her babies’ throats in July 2016 and the Texas mom who fatally shot her two daughters in June 2016 to "punish" her husband.

THE MUSIC:

Gentle on my Mind, Glen Campbell