The House on Lake Alice Road: A KOMO News special on the Humiston family murders

FALL CITY, Wash. — The case is a tragedy. A family was shot and killed inside their home in the middle of the night, but two kids survived. And they’re now telling very different stories about what happened in the early hours of October 21, 2024, inside their Fall City home.

Within days, the house itself became a big part of the story. How did a young girl escape when her parents and siblings were killed? Investigators allege a teenager is framing his dead younger brother. Then prosecutors aren’t just making accusations against that teenager; they’re also saying his defense attorneys misbehaved at the crime scene.

Later this summer, prosecutors and defense attorneys are expected to lay out their respective cases for why or why not a 15-year-old accused of killing his family should be transferred into the adult court system…

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