By Jenny Johnson, Salt Lake
City
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 children and confronting him for raping her, 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 couple
had been separated.
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 did not report the assaults to police because she didn’t want
to ruin her husband’s 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.
The next morning, Kelly Boren
told her husband she would take the children, prompting Joshua Boren to reply
by text: “Don’t involve the kids, they are innocent.”
Joshua Boren had worked for the
Lindon Police Department for only three months. Before that, he was a Utah
County sheriff’s deputy for seven years. He used the service weapon when he
killed his family members and himself, authorities said. Toxicology reports
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
Kelly Boren, 32, 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 80km south of
Salt Lake City.
