Ex-Con Sought in Slayings of 5 Family Members
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LINO LAKES, Minn. — Police searched Friday for an ex-convict suspected of killing his sister, her husband and their three children a day after his release on parole. The man allegedly had vowed to “kill everyone before they kill me.”
The bodies were found Thursday in the family’s suburban Twin Cities home after one of the father’s co-workers called police because he hadn’t shown up at his job. Police would not say Friday how they were killed.
The victims were identified as Donna Mimbach, 29; her husband, Todd Mimbach, 32; and their three children, John Mimbach, 12, Amber Duval, 9, and Daniel Mimbach, 1.
The suspect was identified as Donna Mimbach’s brother, Lawrence Scott Dame, 28, a former state prison inmate.
He was released the day before the killings from the Anoka County jail, where he was being held for allegedly stealing one of the family’s cars.
Dame spent four years in prison after he was convicted of slashing a man’s throat with a knife. He was released in February.
Police had been called to the Mimbach house twice recently for disturbances involving Dame, once for theft and once for a “domestic-related” situation, Chief Dave Pecchia said.
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