An elderly Owsley County couple was shot in their own home and left for dead on Friday. The children of John and Ada McQuinn said their sister, the couple’s mentally ill daughter, is responsible for the murders.
On Friday evening, Kentucky State Police arrested 48-year-old Lynette McQuinn, better known as Renee, for the murders.
“My last words to them out the door, were I love you,” said Cristina McQuinn.
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It’s a moment, that now means so much to Cristina after she found her mother and father, 70-year-old Robert John McQuinn and 66-year-old Ada Pearl McQuinn, dead on Friday morning. The couple had been found in their home on Wilson Lane at around 11:30 a.m.
“I check on them every morning and I came across the street to check on them. And I walked in and seen them, I found them that way,” said Cristina.
Kentucky State Police said they had both been shot.
“At that moment… I said this is not real. I put my hands on my head and I said this is not real,” said Cristina.
She said greatest fear had come true. She said she immediately knew that her sister, Renee, was responsible.
“She’s been mentally ill our whole lives and she has planned this. She planned it, that’s why they made her leave the last time she came here. She told them how she was going to kill them,” said Cristina.
Cristina said her sister, Renee, is a loving person. However, she recently checked out of a mental hospital and was off her medication. On Friday, troopers said Renee was armed and dangerous and by 3 p.m. she had been apprehended.
State Police said Renee was formally arrested on Friday evening, and is charged with tampering with physical evidence and two counts of Murder. She is being held in the Three Forks Regional Jail.
“They didn’t deserve this obviously. Now that the person that did it’s, caught. So, that makes me feel better,” said Cristina.
Kentucky State Police said the double murder is still under investigation. While the home is surrounded by caution tape, the family said it’s not the crime they want to focus on, it’s instead the victims.
“They have touched so many hearts and I just want people to know they are always great people, no matter where they are,” said Cristina.
Cristina said her parents were devoted grandparents, selfless and caring people. They retired in Kentucky and had previously lived in Indiana. Instead of how they died, their children want them remembered for how they lived.
“They have done too much good to not be remembered as wonderful people,” said Cristina.
