Police: Officer Who Killed Family Had Raped Wife

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah police officer who killed his
wife, their two children, his mother-in-law and then himself received
text messages from his wife just hours earlier threatening to leave him
and take their kids and confronting him for raping her, new documents
show.
A Spanish Fork Police report shows Joshua Boren and his wife
exchanged heated texts the night and morning before the January
killings.
In them, Kelly Boren confronted her husband about raping her and told him their marriage was over, The
Deseret News reported (
). The couple already had been separated for some time.
Joshua
Boren’s therapist told authorities that Boren drugged his wife and
videotaped himself sexually assaulting her on more than one occasion.
Kelly
Boren learned of the assaults when she discovered the tapes in 2013,
said Spanish Fork Police Lt. Matt Johnson. She told a few friends, but
she did not report the assaults to police because she didn’t want to
ruin her husband’s law enforcement career, the report says.
The
night before she was killed, Kelly Boren brought up the alleged sexual
assault again, texting the word "rape" to her husband four times, the
documents show. "I hate my life because (of) you," she texted. "You
killed a part of me."
She wrote in another text: "I don’t want to live in fear and hate and anger."
The
next morning, Kelly Boren told her husband she would take the kids,
prompting Joshua Boren to reply by text: "Don’t involve the kids, they
are innocent."
The police report says Joshua Boren was sexually
abused as a child, struggled with drug addiction as a young man and
pornography addiction throughout his life, and had a deep-rooted hatred
for his mother.
After his father committed suicide when he was 5,
Joshua Boren’s mother began using drugs and seeing several men, the
report states. One of those men allegedly abused Joshua Boren, and he
blamed his mother for not protecting him, his sister told police.
The therapist told police Boren was like a "3-year-old boy stuck in a big man’s body."
"Josh was a very troubled individual that felt like he was about to lose his wife and
children," police wrote in the report.
Joshua
Boren had worked for the Lindon Police Department for only three months
when the murder-suicide occurred. Before that, he was a Utah County
sheriff’s deputy for seven years, Johnson said.
He used the
service weapon he was given for his duties as a Lindon police officer
when he killed his family members and himself, authorities said.
Toxicology reports from the autopsy show he had no drugs or alcohol in
his system.
Police said the state medical examiner confirmed what
investigators believed: Joshua Boren shot his wife, 32-year-old Kelly
Boren; his 55-year-old mother-in-law, Marie King; and his two children,
7-year-old Joshua "Jaden" and 5-year-old Haley, before killing himself.
The
shooting happened at the family’s home in Spanish Fork, a city of about
37,000 located 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. The events stunned the
community, as well as friends and family, said Johnson, who added
investigators didn’t find anybody who suspected Joshua Boren was capable
of such an act.
Though Joshua Boren wasn’t living at the house,
friends and family said he still came every morning to get the kids
ready for school and preschool, Johnson said. He also picked them up
every afternoon.
"He was praised as being an excellent father," Johnson said.