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.
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In them, Kelly Boren confronted her husband about
raping her and told him their marriage was over, The
Deseret News reported (http:///1oC8lWG ).
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.


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