How four white sheets of paper - including one bearing chilling message - alerted cops to murder-suicide family slaughter in $4m mansion
Four white sheets of paper revealed a murder-suicide that had just taken place at a Massachusetts mansion.
Rakesh 'Rick' Kamal, 57, shot dead his wife Teena, 54, and their daughter Arianna, 18, as they slept in their beds at the family's $4million Dover mansion in December. He then turned the gun on himself in a bathtub.
Kamal was broke when he killed his family on the same day they were going to be kicked out from their foreclosed 21-room mansion, according to documents seen by the Boston Globe.
When officers arrived at the home after a 911 call, they found a typed message on a piece of paper that seemed to be intended for a person scheduled to retrieve the keys of the home.
The note read: 'Please Note, Before entering call the Police to first check three bedrooms on the second floor. Each room will be marked by a white sheet of paper.'
Rakesh 'Rick' Kamal, 57, shot dead his wife Teena, 54, and their daughter Arianna, 18, as they slept in their beds at the family's $4million Dover mansion in December. He then turned the gun on himself in a bathtub
Inside the rooms where the bodies of Kamal, Teena and their daughter.
The murders rocked the community, where Rick was considered to be a wealthy entrepreneur and doting father running a successful start-up business.
However following his death, it was revealed Rick had filed for bankruptcy and was served with a foreclosure notice just three months before the killings.
Rick's younger brother Manoj Kamal told police he had leant Rick about $150,000, in roughly $5,000 increments in the nine months before the killings.
Manoj also claims Rick drained their mother's bank account.
Police documents have also revealed that while Teena was not fully aware of the extent of her husband's financial issues, she also felt under significant pressure.
Manoj Kamal said Teena had recently made a trouble statement about wanting 'to drive their family car off a cliff due to the recent stress they were under.'
The Kamal family were found dead on Thursday night at their 27-room property on Wilson's Way in Dover. The Kamals' home was assessed at $6.7 million, according to town records
Rick purchased his $6.7 million home predominantly using borrowed money and had received a foreclosure notice after failing to keep up repayments
Rick's family have confirmed that the veneer of perfection ran so deep even his wife and daughter had no idea they were drowning in debt.
The parents and their only daughter were found dead by Rick's brother Manoj on December 28 - three weeks after a foreclosure notice was served on their sprawling 20,000-square-foot home, which they bought for $4 million in 2019.
Now valued at $6.7 million, it has since emerged the mansion was bought with $3.8 million borrowed from the property's builder rather than a bank, with the money needing to be repaid within two years.
But by 2021, interest and fines had spiraled out of control and despite an effort to restructure the mortgage, foreclosure notices were served.
Even as the foreclosure was being processed, Teena was under the impression they were still moving forward with the purchase of a $16.5 million chateau along Tennessee's Chickamauga Lake.
Arianna Kamal, 18, (pictured) was discovered dead with her parents in their Dover, Massachusetts, home. She recently graduated from Milton Academy and began attending Middlebury College to study neuroscience
Rick presented as a doting dad, even appearing on daytime TV to offer parenting tips to promote his now defunct education tech company
Listing agent James Perry said that Rick had provided bank statements proving his 'ability to purchase'. The family toured the property, with Teena even starting to purchase furniture - but the contract was never signed.
The illusion of wealth was propped up by Rick at every turn. Arianna attended an elite private school Milton Academy and was given expensive music tuition while attending Middlebury College.
The family drove a luxury car and Rick would continuously show up to work in bespoke tailoring, according to former colleagues who revealed that Rick had been pushed out his role at Harvard Business School.
The father-of-one took on the role of chief technology officer in 2015 and was gone by 2019.
An archived version of the school's website showed that his position was open less than four months after he bought the Dover property. His wife reportedly believed he was still employed there as late as 2023.
