KENADEE and ISABELLA OLIVA - 13 and 7 yo - / Murderer: Mother, Kyler Ramsdell Oliva (a suicide) - Syracuse, UT

ByCrimesider Staff CBS January 16, 2014, 10: 25 AM




Cops: Utah mom, 2 daughters die in murder-suicide


Outside the Syracuse, Utah, home where police found the bodies of 32-year-old Kyler Ramsdell-Oliva, 13-year-old Kenadee Oliva and seven-year-old Isabella Oliva. CBS affiliate KUTV


SYRACUSE, Utah – Northern Utah police and the Davis County Sheriff’s Office are looking into a murder-suicide involving a mother and her two daughters, reports CBS affiliate KUTV.

Officers arrived on the scene in Syracuse on Tuesday night after reports of gunfire and found the bodies of 32-year-old Kyler Ramsdell-Oliva, 13-year-old Kenadee Oliva and seven-year-old Isabella Oliva.

Syracuse Police Officer Erin Behm said, “At this point, we know it is a murder-suicide. There are no suspects.”

Ramsdell-Oliva and her daughters had only recently moved into the Syracuse home, living there for about three months with Kyler’s then-fiancé, according to Behm. Police had been at the home one night prior to the incident, after Kyler and her fiancé broke up.

“The fiancé had been over there for his property, and they called the police to have us over there so nothing did happen,” Behm said.

Kenadee and Bella Oliva had only recently enrolled in the school system in the city about 25 miles north of Salt Lake City. Kenadee was attending Syracuse Junior High; her little sister was a first-grader at Syracuse Elementary. Davis School District spokesperson Chris Williams said that grief counselers were available to students on Wednesday.

“She’s in a better place,” said Madi Blackburn, Kenadee’s classmate. “But I think a lot of us are missing her.”

Blackburn described her friend as happy and free-spirited. She left balloons and a stuffed animal in front of the Ramsdell-Oliva home as a tribute to Kenadee and her little sister.

Neighbor Ivy Ruelan was in disbelief. Just on Saturday, his son attended a mermaid-themed party for Bella.

“It’s just heartbreaking to find out last night that she’s gone,” Ruelan said. “Really sweet girl, just quiet, probably because they were new here.”

Neighbors also recalled seeing a moving truck in front of the house and a distraught man in the driveway.

“My prayers go out to this family,” Ruelan said.

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Death of mother, daughters ruled a murder-suicide

By Jim Dalrymple II, | The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Mar 04 2014 05:15 pm
Last Updated Mar 04 2014 06:28 pm

A Syracuse mother killed herself and her two daughters in January, investigators officially announced Tuesday.

Kyler Ann Ramsdell-Oliva, 32, shot her daughters Kenadee Oliva, 13, and Isabella Oliva, 7, about 7 p.m. Jan. 14.

Investigators initially believed the killing was a murder-suicide, and police confirmed those suspicions based on information from the department’s crime scene investigators and the state medical examiner. Syracuse police Officer Erin Behm said Tuesday the investigation confirmed that Ramsdell-Oliva pulled the trigger, though police have not said what prompted the killings.

The investigation was closed Tuesday.

Police found the bodies after they responded to a 911 call reporting shots fired. Ramsdell-Oliva’s former fiance — apparently having arrived to move his things out of the home — was found outside, reportedly in shock over the tragic turn of events.

Witnesses said he was distraught, talking to himself and asking, "Why [did she] do that?"

Behm said the ex-fiance, Ramsdell-Oliva and girls had moved into the home within the last three months. The night before the shooting, officers went by the home to supervise an exchange of property between Ramsdell-Oliva and her ex-fiance, who was moving out. The man was questioned, along with other family members and friends, but was cleared of any involvement in the slayings.

Other than the Jan. 13 night call when the couple broke up, police had not had any reports of problems at the address, Behm said.

Friends and neighbors were unable to shed much light on the killings, saying only that the family seemed happy.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57632646-78/oliva-police-ramsdell-behm.html.csp