However, a police source later confirmed that the adult victims were Lance and Amy Buckley, and that the husband is suspected of killing his wife and the girls before taking his own life.

Bonnie Thomen, who moved to Windsor Forest in 2004, said she casually knows Lance Buckley’s mother, who also lives at the home where the deaths took place. Buckley moved into his parents’ home with his wife and two young children last year, she said.

Lance Buckley was in the news last year. He went missing on May 5, 2015, after catching a ride to Howard University, where he was enrolled in a Ph.D program. His family thought he was graduating a few days later, but he did not.

He was found at the Brunswick Family Campground near Harper’s Ferry, W.Va., three days later. His wife asked for the public’s help in locating her husband at a news conference last year, saying it was “totally out of character” for him to not contact his family.