There is shock and mourning after four bodies were discovered inside an Affton home Friday morning in what police are describing as a domestic dispute turned violent. Among the dead was an 18 year old who was supposed to graduate Friday night.
St. Louis County Police stopped short of calling the tragedy a murder-suicide but are treating it as a homicide case. They're terming it a domestic incident.
Emily Dreiman, 18, was just one of those found in the home on Vine near Gravois. She was set to graduate from Affton High School on Friday night. Also discovered dead was Emily's mother, 44 year old Dianna Worden, another one of Dianna's children, 26 year old Brandon Greene, and Dianna's husband 50 year old Dennis Worden. Investigators won't say how the four died but do say guns were found in the home.
Neighbors are stunned-one woman put up an angel in front of the house Friday night to honor the victims.
Dianna's surviving son says he knew of no domestic issues. But Emily's best friend says Emily confided in her about problems she had with her mother's husband.
"She would come to school and tell me how he would call her fat and all this and that's not right whether she was big or not that's your step daughter. He goes I don't like kids, I don't want kids," said 18 year old Chelsea Clifton.
Jeremy Greene, Dianna's surviving 27 year old son, added about his mom, "She was a kind woman who didn't have a hateful bone in her body... (I) just don't understand how, why, you know all those questions that people go through in their mind about how could this happen."
County police responded to the home a little before 9:30 Friday morning after receiving a call from family members who were worried because no one would answer the phone at the house.
When officers went inside, they made the gruesome discoveries.
Police tell us there is no search for any suspects and whatever happened was isolated to inside the home.
Investigators say officers responded to home last November for an attempted suicide call but they would not say who was involved. Detectives tell us there was no history of domestic violence calls at the house.
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