{"id":798142,"date":"2026-08-01T22:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798142\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:02:16","slug":"shocking-new-detail-revealed-in-timeline-of-michigan-murder-suicide-that-left-family-of-8-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798142\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking new detail revealed in timeline of Michigan murder-suicide that left family of 8 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mother-of-six who was killed in a murder-suicide in Michigan \u201clikely died earlier\u201d than her six children, police told a local outlet.<\/p>\n

Kristopher Karolkiewicz, 47, and Amanda \u201cMandy\u201d Karolkiewicz, 39, were found dead along with their six kids \u2013 aged 5 to 15 \u2013 after being shot in the head, according to death certificates obtained by News 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police previously revealed that autopsy results showed that the mom and children were killed, while the dad died by suicide.<\/p>\n

\"KristopherKristopher Karolkiewicz is accused of murdering his wife Amanda and their six children. TikTok \/ @mandykarolk<\/p>\n

Ottawa Sheriff\u2019s Office Capt. Jacob Sparks told News 8 in an email that evidence and autopsy results suggest Amanda Karolkiewicz \u201clikely died earlier than the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

A death certificate for the mom lists her date of death as \u201con or after\u201d July 23 \u2014 but also notes the date of injury as July 24, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

However, all six children \u2014 Keegan, 15, Bennett, 12, Smith, 11, Ella, 11, Caroline, 11 and Theodore, 5 \u2014 and Kristopher Karolkiewicz died on July 24, the certificates seen by the outlet state.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have an exact timeline yet and are still working to establish that,\u201d Sparks told the outlet.<\/p>\n

The times of death are marked \u201cunknown\u201d and the documents indicate that each of them died immediately or within seconds of being shot, according to the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials said their bodies were found in different bedrooms throughout the Grand Haven home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dad also set the house on fire<\/a> after the killings, officials said, and at least three dogs and a cat died in the blaze.<\/p>\n

The Ottawa Sheriff\u2019s Office did not immediately return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on the Michigan murder-suicide that left family of 8 dead:<\/p>\n

Amanda Karolkiewicz was a beloved substitute teacher<\/a> and a children\u2019s book author.<\/p>\n

She penned \u201cThe Magical Mantra: A Tiny Book About Self Talk\u201d in 2022, dedicated to her six children, two of whom were adopted.<\/p>\n

\"AmandaAmanda \u201clikely died earlier\u201d than her six children, police told a local outlet. Family of Amanda Karolkiewicz<\/p>\n

But Amanda Karolkiewicz<\/a> had allegedly shared a darker glimpse into her life in explosive Reddit posts \u2014 accusing her husband of having an affair with a younger intern.<\/a><\/p>\n

The mom wrote on Reddit under the username MandyK1179, the Holland Sentinel reported<\/a> after independently confirming the authenticity of the account.<\/p>\n

In one 2024 post seen by the outlet, she described how she met her older husband while she was working as an intern.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was divorced and older than me \u2026 fast forward ten years and five kids, he was cheating with the intern again \u2014 the same age I was when I was the intern,\u201d she allegedly wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter about a year of self-loathing, I remember crying and looking at myself in the mirror and realizing how\u2026 it was that I was the one who was living so miserably because of what he did,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI finally realized that I had been the only person who has ever showed up for myself my whole entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, family spokesperson Emily Jones\u00a0told News8<\/a>\u00a0of the posts: \u201cI do want to make it clear that we have no way to confirm that that was Mandy that made the posts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother-of-six who was killed in a murder-suicide in Michigan \u201clikely died earlier\u201d than her six children, police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1303,34401,38137,3,21,19,22,20,25,194,24],"class_list":["post-798142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-michigan","tag-murder-suicide","tag-murders","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}