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Massachusetts police clued in to wealthy family's mansion murders with three sheets of paper and chilling note
Grisly new details emerged this week in the murder-suicide of a seemingly wealthy Massachussetts family who were all found shot to death late last year in their sprawling $4 million mansion, according to a new report.
Rakesh “Rick” Kamal, 57, fatally shot his wife, Teena, 54, and their 18-year-old daughter, Arianna, as they slept in their beds three days after Christmas. He then climbed into a bathtub and turned the gun on himself, the Boston Globe reported.
While appearing affluent to outsiders, the Kamals were hopelessly buried in debt – and were scheduled for eviction from their 11-bedroom Dover mansion nestled on five acres the day of the slayings.
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Rakesh Kamal, 57, (right) shot his wife, Teena, 54, and their 18-year-old daughter, Arianna, before turning the gun on himself in their Dover, Massachusetts, mansion. (Paula Swift Photography/ USA TODAY NETWORK)
Responding to a 911 call, police entered the residence on Dec. 28 and found a typed note addressed to the person who was scheduled to pick up the keys, according to the local newspaper’s account of a 63-page police report.
“Please note,” it read. “Before entering call the Police to first check three bedrooms on the second floor. Each room will be marked by a white sheet of paper.”
Police found each of the bodies behind those demarcated doors.
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Rakesh Kamal, 57, (right) shot his wife, Teena, 54, and their 18-year-old daughter, Arianna, before turning the gun on himself in their Dover, Massachusetts, mansion. (Paula Swift Photography)
The calculated killings shocked relatives and convulsed the wealthy local community.
Neighbors in Dover – a suburb of Boston – knew Rick Kamal as a wealthy entrepreneur and dedicated father.
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But beneath their veneer of wealth, the family were drowning in debt and stress.
Rick – who had filed for bankruptcy and been served with a foreclosure notice three months before the killings – owed his brother Manoj $150,000. The sibling had given his brother the loans in a string of $5,000 increments, according to the Globe.
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Police investigating the murder-suicide of the Kamal family. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The broke businessman was also given money by his mother, and he eventually sank her bank account to nearly nothing.
Aware of their mounting financial pressures, Teena recently told Manoj that she wanted to “drive their family off a cliff due to the recent stress they were under,” according to the report.
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Manoj – who found the bodies and called police – told investigators that his brother had spun a web of deceit for years on end.
“[Manoj] thinks every conversation he has had with Rakesh the past five years was a lie,” his wife’s sister told police.
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Rakesh “Rick” Kamal fatally shot his daughter Arianna, 18, and his wife, Teena, before turning the gun on himself Dec. 28.
Marybeth Bisson, the developer of the Kamals’ enormous home, also financed its sale to the family.
She told investigators that Rick had begun concocting excuses for missing mortgage payments and pleaded with her not to discuss the situation with his wife.
On Dec. 23, five days before the killings, a fax was sent to the company holding Teena’s $1.25 million life insurance policy to add Manoj as a beneficiary.
The Globe reported that the Kamals FaceTimed with relatives in India on Christmas Day and that there was nothing out of the ordinary about the exchange.
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Aerial view of the Kamal family’s Dover, Massachusetts mansion, where the father killed his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself. (Google Street View)
Rick texted his brother the following day to cancel a scheduled get-together. He also texted Arianna’s boyfriend to nix his upcoming visit to the family.
The boyfriend told police that Arianna had confided some of her family’s troubles to him, hinting at one point that Teena wanted to leave her father but that they seemed to be on the mend.
At the same time, Rick was in regular communication with his home’s developer to discuss his departure.
After not hearing from his brother for several days, Manoj went to the home, known as “Enchanted Acres,” and called 911.
The Kamals bought the mansion for just under $4 million, according to records. The Zillow estimate for the 20,000-square-foot compound is nearly $7 million.
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GREENE TWP., Pa. (WKBN) – A 17-year-old Greenville boy on a minibike was killed in a crash over the weekend in Mercer County.
The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
A family member identified the victim as Ethan Guthrie, who attended Reynolds High School.
A Pennsylvania State Police report states that the teenager was driving a minibike traveling westbound on state Route 58 in the eastbound lane. A 2003 Lincoln Town Car driven by a 23-year-old man from Jamestown was traveling east in the eastbound lane.
The report states that the Town Car swerved to the right to avoid a head-on crash, while the minibike swerved to the left and hit the front end of the Town Car.
Guthrie, who was wearing a helmet, was transported to UPMC Greenville but died from his injuries.
Pennsylvania State Police were investigating the crash.
Hanna Erdmann and Kristen Hephner contributed to this report.
Rhode Island State Police said Tuesday that a dump truck that was left in the up position struck a bridge over Route 146 in Lincoln.
The crash happened at about 11 p.m. Monday at Breakneck Hill Road.
State police said their preliminary investigation showed the truck dumped a load of material south of Breakneck Hill Road, headed north with the dump body in the “full up” position and struck the overpass.
The driver complained of pain, but no other injuries were reported.
State police said Route 146 was shut down at 11:09 p.m. and re-opened at 2:10 a.m. after the truck was removed and Department of Transportation inspectors cleared the bridge. Traffic was detoured during the closure.
State police said they towed away the truck for inspection.
They said the truck is owned by A. Furtado’s Paving in East Providence, a private company sub-contracted by DOT. It was part of a paving project on Route 146.
Rabies is significantly on the rise among wild animals in Vermont, according to Vermont health officials. In response, the state and federal government are ramping up joint efforts to vaccinate wildlife against the disease.
Officials plan to put over 900,000 doses in bait they’ll distribute across 10 counties in Vermont. Workers in early May will drop the bait from low-flying aircraft in rural areas, and place it by hand in more densely-populated places.
Little blister packs covered in a waxy green coating will hold the vaccine. They’re scented to attract raccoons and skunks.
If you encounter these blister packs while you’re out, it’s important to leave them alone so wild animals can find them, said Vermont public health veterinarian Natalie Kwit.
“The way it works is they pick them up, they bite into it. It’s kind of like a pressurized liquid packet, and it bursts in their mouth, and then they swallow it, and it gets them vaccinated,” she said.
If your pet accidentally eats one of these blister packs, Kwit said they should be fine. But the health department wants you to call anyway to let them know.
Rabies is a deadly virus that attacks the brain and nervous system. Infected animals spread the disease through their saliva. In Vermont, it is most often found in raccoons, skunks, foxes, and bats.
There were 66 rabid animals reported in both 2024 and 2025, more than double the previous annual average in Vermont. So far this year, 16 animals have been found to be rabid. While counties across northern Vermont have been affected, the greatest number of recent cases have been in Orleans County.
The vaccine bait drop is a joint project between the state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has been running the program across the eastern seaboard since the 1990s.
Officials also plan to conduct the regular, annual statewide bait drop in August. This year is the fourth consecutive year that Vermont has scheduled an extra bait drop in response to rising cases.
Rabies cases are up nationally, although officials say they’re still trying to understand why.
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