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Judith was last seen on the morning of Monday, July 25, 1988, while she was riding her bike on her street.<ref name = "Documentary">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqsL2c73OHc DEATH OF A FAMILY - Judith Barsi's story], ''Arnold Shapiro Productions'' (1989)</ref> On that same night, József shot Judith in the head while she was asleep in her room. Maria, hearing the gunshot, ran down the hall, where József met her and shot her as well. József spent the next two days wandering around the house,<ref name = "Documentary"/> and said during a phone call with Judith's agent on Tuesday night that he intended to move out for good, and just needed time to "say goodbye to [my] little girl."<ref name=latimes /> He then poured gasoline on the bodies and set them on fire.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-29/local/me-7875_1_child-actress Local News in Brief : Bodies Identified as Child Actress, Mother], ''LA Times'' (July 29, 1988)</ref> He later went into the garage and shot himself in the head with a .32 caliber pistol. <ref name = "fuentes">[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-28/local/me-9912_1_apparent-murder-suicide Three Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide], ''LA Times'' (July 28, 1988)</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/30/us/child-actress-is-slain-apparently-by-father.html Child Actress Is Slain, Apparently by Father], ''NY Times'' (July 30, 1988)</ref> | Judith was last seen on the morning of Monday, July 25, 1988, while she was riding her bike on her street.<ref name = "Documentary">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqsL2c73OHc DEATH OF A FAMILY - Judith Barsi's story], ''Arnold Shapiro Productions'' (1989)</ref> On that same night, József shot Judith in the head while she was asleep in her room. Maria, hearing the gunshot, ran down the hall, where József met her and shot her as well. József spent the next two days wandering around the house,<ref name = "Documentary"/> and said during a phone call with Judith's agent on Tuesday night that he intended to move out for good, and just needed time to "say goodbye to [my] little girl."<ref name=latimes /> He then poured gasoline on the bodies and set them on fire.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-29/local/me-7875_1_child-actress Local News in Brief : Bodies Identified as Child Actress, Mother], ''LA Times'' (July 29, 1988)</ref> He later went into the garage and shot himself in the head with a .32 caliber pistol. <ref name = "fuentes">[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-28/local/me-9912_1_apparent-murder-suicide Three Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide], ''LA Times'' (July 28, 1988)</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/30/us/child-actress-is-slain-apparently-by-father.html Child Actress Is Slain, Apparently by Father], ''NY Times'' (July 30, 1988)</ref> | ||
==Aftermath== | |||
While Judith and Maria were buried together in an unmarked grave on August 9th, 1988, the location of József's grave is a mystery, and so is whether he was even buried or cremated, or simply decomposed on the ground.<ref name = "lundberg"/> | While Judith and Maria were buried together in an unmarked grave on August 9th, 1988, the location of József's grave is a mystery, and so is whether he was even buried or cremated, or simply decomposed on the ground.<ref name = "lundberg"/> | ||
Jozsef's son from his first marriage, Barna, became a chronic alcoholic, and comitted suicide by throwing himself off a bridge in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1995. His first daughter, Ági, developed breast cancer in 1997, and became a radio talk show host and an author of self help books.<ref name=agibarsi /> She succumbed to her cancer in 2008. | |||
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