Five Murder Victims Identified And Released To Family

Two sisters who planned to travel back to Arkansas to spend the holidays at their childhood home are here early, planning funerals for four murdered family members. They say they won't find closure until the suspects are caught.

Crime scene tape is now replaced with five crosses and bouquets of flowers. Karen Gentry says, "It's so horrific on so many levels and it just doesn't seem to stop."

Sisters Karen Gentry and Pam Taylor learned Friday five family members and a friend were shot, four then burned in a mobile home.

Karen and Pam has since noticed items missing and police say the suspects stayed a while.

Gentry adds, "When you think it has gotten as bad as you can think it's gotten, it hasn't. It keeps unfolding and you think, what in the world was going through these people minds when they attacked."

Gentry says all five victims have been identified, four by dental records. They are her father Edward Gentry, her brother, Edward Gentry Junior; his wife, Pam; their son, Jeremy, and his friend Kristyn Warneke. Gentry says the details of their deaths are horrific.

Officials with the Garland County Sheriff's Department say they don't have any suspects at this time, but evidence leads them to believe folks in the community shouldn't feel threatened.

Pam Taylor says, "If these people will do this to our family, they'll go out and do it again."

Behind this barbed wire, 80-year-old Edward Gentry Seniors' white truck is being held for evidence. It was found burning miles away from his home, 15-minutes before police were called to the murder scene.

Gentry says, "That was my father's and if it was out after 10 p.m. it was not him on that night. If you saw that vehicle on the night of the event please contact the police."

Both sisters say closure isn't a reality right now and they've put their trust in the police department to find those responsible. Gentry adds, "Three generations died that day and it was just a horrific event in our lives that will be there forever."

Garland County Investigators say state and federal agencies are assisting on the case, but so far none of their leads have panned out.

If you have any information call the Garland County Sheriff's Department, you can remain anonymous.

The Gentry family plans to bury their relatives this weekend.
You can donate to the 'Gentry Memorial Fund' at any Bank of America.