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The Shunning: The Descent Into Madness of Family Annihilator Lauren Stuart
Till Death Do Them Part
To those who knew her only on the surface, forty-five-year-old Lauren Stuart was the picture of perfection. A devoted wife to her husband Dan, as well as a loving mother to her adult children — Steven and Bethany — it seemed as though fate had truly smiled upon her.
What those viewing the cozy life Lauren had carved out for herself in the upscale Keego Harbor area of Michigan from afar didn’t know was that, underneath the pretty packaging, a storm was brewing. When she finally revealed the turmoil that had been eating away at her, it would be in the form of a mass murder/suicide that would devastate a community and leave many wondering if being shunned from the church she held dear had led her down the path of destruction.
On the evening of February 15, 2018, Lauren, who had become more and more detached from reality in recent months, grabbed the pistol her family didn’t know she owned, and killed those she claimed to love, one by one.
The first to die was her forty-seven-year-old husband Dan, a medical researcher who was employed by the University of…
