Tiede Cabin Murders Rips Through a Family — True Crime
A family planning to spend the holiday together comes face to face with ex-cons who are on the run.
It was a few days before Christmas in a cabin in the mountains of Utah. It sounds like a pleasant way to spend the holiday with family. It’s what the Tiede family had planned when senseless evil came crashing in on them.
On December 22, 1990, while the Tiede family was out shopping in Salt Lake City. Their cabin had been broken into. Where the burglars remained lurking as the family started to return. This wasn’t a case of the burglars being interrupted. No, they had waited intently. And as the burglars waited, they made the decision to kill the family when they arrived.
While the soon to be killers waited for the family to come home. They recorded themselves opening up the Christmas gifts from under the tree. Showing no sign of stress or anxiety over what they were about to do.
First to arrive would be Beth Potts 72 the grandmother of the family. Along with her daughter Kaye Tiede 49, and one of Kayes daughters Linae 20 at the time. It would be later reported that the burglars would within three minutes kill both Beth and Kaye. Branding themselves murderers.
The three had arrived back at their cabin around 12:30 p.m., and it would be Linea who first…
