A teenage boy came home to his family’s house in Springville, Utah, after spending time with his girlfriend. When he walked inside, something felt wrong. Nobody was around, and the house was completely silent. He tried to open his parents’ bedroom door, but it was locked. He called his grandmother for help, and when she arrived, she broke into the room. What they saw inside would shock the entire state. According to the Washington Post, the grandmother and grandson found five dead bodies in the bedroom. Benjamin Strack, who was 37 years old, was lying on the bed with his wife Kristi, 36. Their three youngest kids were in the room too. Two of them, Benson and Emery, were on mattresses on the floor. Their youngest son, Zion, was on the bed between his parents. All of them were gone. People who knew the family told police that Benjamin and Kristi had been talking a lot about the end of the world. They were worried about the “evil in the world” and wanted to escape a “pending apocalypse.” Some friends thought they might hurt themselves, while others believed they just wanted to move away from everything and live in a remote place where nobody could find them. Doctors found out what really happened Several months later, medical experts figured out how the family died. Tests showed that everyone had dangerous amounts of drugs in their system. The three kids had antihistamine medicine and methadone in their blood. Kristi had those same drugs plus two other types of medicine. Benjamin died from too much heroin. Police found empty medicine bottles all over the room, including cold medicine, allergy pills, and liquid methadone. They also found a plastic bucket with a strange orange and yellow mixture inside. Officials said Benjamin and Kristi killed themselves and ruled the two younger kids’ deaths as murders as they couldn’t possibly agree to die. But they weren’t sure about Benson, the 14-year-old. “Because of his age, it is difficult to determine if he was capable to make a decision to commit suicide or to consent to join with his parents in committing suicide,” police explained. A few days before everything happened, Benson wrote a letter to his friend saying goodbye and telling him he would not be alive much longer. Police think Benjamin was the last person to die. He got into bed between his wife and youngest son after everyone else was already gone. The family’s oldest child, a 19-year-old son named Janson McGee, was not home that night. He was the one who found everyone dead. Police believe his parents did not include him because he had grown up and was planning to get married soon. While looking into the case, officers learned something strange about Kristi. She had been writing letters to a man in prison named Dan Lafferty. He was locked up for killing his brother’s wife and her baby back in 1984. Police said Kristi became friends with Dan Lafferty, and she and Benjamin went to visit him in prison. One officer said, “It was almost like he talked to her like one of his children.” But they hadn’t seen him since 2008, so police do not think he had anything to do with what happened. Police found a list in the house with normal things written on it, like “feed the pets” and “find someone to watch over the house,” almost like they were going on vacation. They also found Benson’s note where he left his stuff to his friend. Similar to other mysterious death cases that required family intervention to uncover the truth, there were many unanswered questions. Records showed that Kristi had struggled with heroin addiction before. She was taking methadone to help her stop using heroin, and that is where the methadone came from that killed the family. While extreme behaviors can sometimes lead to fatal consequences, this case left everyone confused about why the parents made this choice. But there was nothing that explained why they decided to end their lives and take their children with them. Police Chief Finlayson said, “There are some questions we can’t answer and may never be able to answer.”