Disturbing new details emerge about California cop killer who slaughtered wife and daughter: Monster
A retired San Francisco police sergeant who gunned down his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself was in the throes of a bizarre late-life makeover — as a a family friend said he had “a monster inside him.”Kevin Mannix, 68, had reportedly been hitting the gym, shedding pounds and overhauling his appearance as his marriage to former San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Ann Mannix, 65, crumbled.“He had wanted to chase youth,” Mary Conde, a longtime close friend of Ann, told the San Francisco Chronicle.“It seems like he was on a campaign to revamp his appearance.”Conde described the former police sergeant as being in the middle of a late “midlife crisis” as the couple headed toward divorce.But the most chilling revelation came when Conde described the darkness she now believes was lurking beneath Kevin’s seemingly ordinary exterior.“Kevin had a monster inside of him that he was able to suppress for all of his lifetime until Sunday, and that monster came out in the most horrific possible way,” Conde told the Chronicle “And nobody suspected that that was ever a possibility.”The disturbing comments come after investigators said Kevin fatally shot his wife and their 24-year-old daughter, Katie, inside the family’s home in the affluent Marin County community of Strawberry, east of Mill Valley, on Sunday evening.He then apparently turned the gun on himself, authorities said.At least one person managed to escape the house and call 911 as the horror unfolded.
The caller reported that Kevin had been drinking red wine, according to investigators.Authorities have not publicly identified a motive for the suspected double murder-suicide.Conde, a local entertainment executive who had known Ann for decades, said the shocking violence blindsided those closest to the family.Still, she admitted that after processing the horrific news, she couldn’t completely dismiss the possibility that Kevin was capable of such brutality.“I didn’t clutch ...