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Matthew Riley

Just as the last case I published, this case also has much controversy surrounding it.  One could say this one is different because the family of the victims do not believe the defendant to be guilty, but it should also be said that the family of the victims, are also the family of the defendant.   On December 9, 2008 in Sacramento California, a 9-1-1 call was made around 4:30 pm.  The caller was Matthew Riley who would claim to have found the body of his father in his father's home.  While talking to the operator he would go through the home and upstairs would find the body of his mother in her bedroom.  Within a few minutes officers would arrive on the scene to find Matthew on the front porch of the home crying and smoking a cigarette. Just inside the front room lay the body of Steven Riley and in the master bedroom investigators would find the body of his wife, Linda.  A medical examination would determine that each had been stabbed nearly twenty tim...