Hello and welcome back to Sword and Scale Daily.

I'm your host Ryan Williams.

It's Thursday, May 21st.

Coming up on Sword and Scale Daily, a South Carolina man killed his ex-girlfriend and her

two daughters before turning the gun on himself.

A Washington State mother, accused of trying to kill her two small children, reportedly told

investigators that she thought they would be better off dead.

Finally, two Maryland women who have been missing since April 6th were murdered in West

Virginia according to a criminal complaint filed this week.

All this and more, coming up on Sword and Scale Daily.

A South Carolina man killed his ex-girlfriend and two of her daughters after she broke up

with them.

The incident happened on the evening of Sunday, May 17th.

The incident report, which was obtained by the Times in Democrat, says that a 911 call

reporting gunshots on bugle flower lane in St. Matthews, came in at about 6.53 pm.

When officers with the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene, they found

the bodies of two females and one male outside the house and another female body inside.

The male was identified as 37-year-old Gabriel Jordan and was found with a gun lying between

his legs.

The victims were 37-year-old Shanta Singleton, 15-year-old Essence Strowman and 12-year-old

Treve Strowman.

Singleton's other two daughters, 18-year-old Chantasia and a 13-year-old whose name is

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