8 People Slain In Ga. Were 'Good Country Folks' - Pennsylvania ...
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Rusty Toler Sr. took in people who were down on their luck, packing his mobile home with relatives and others who had lost their jobs or fallen on hard times.
It's what good country folk do, says the manager of the park where Toler, his four children, two siblings and his daughter's boyfriend were found slain. Ten people lived in the single-wide, 980-square-foot trailer in coastal Georgia that cost Toler $405 a month.
Police have no suspects and have not said how the family died.
"They were very good people," said Laura Davis, an aunt to Toler's children. "They struggled but they had what they needed. They had a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs."
Police released the names and ages of the dead Tuesday, three days after the carnage was reported in a frantic 911 call by a relative who said he had returned from a night out to find his whole family dead.
"It's just a shock," said Gail Montgomery, who manages the New Hope Plantation mobile home park where Toler and his family lived. "They were just what I'd call good country folks. I don't think any of them would hurt a fly."
The victims included 44-year-old Toler and his four children: Chrissy Toler, 22; Russell D. Toler Jr., 20; Michael Toler, 19; and Michelle Toler, 15.
Also killed were two of Toler's siblings -- Guy Heinze Sr., 45, and Brenda Gail Falagan, 49, as well as 30-year-old Joseph L. West, Chrissy Toler's boyfriend. A ninth victim, whom police did not identify, remained in critical condition Tuesday.
A grieving Diane Isenhower, Toler Sr.'s ex-wife and mother to their four slain children, said she wants whoever killed them to pay.
"Oh my God, I want my babies back," Isenhower told WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla. "Oh God, it's bad. It's so bad. I want to get the people that did this to my baby. They're animals, animals."
Montgomery said the elder Toler had taken in his brother, a nephew, his daughter and...
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