re: 8 people found dead in Houston home after standoff; suspect arrested

Warning this may be TL;DR, after all this is GingerKittie. I had to research all this for an article anyway so I thought I would share my findings here.

The family ties in this whole matter are a bit confusing.

The female (Valerie Conley on FB) was apparently married to David Conley in 1999 and then married to Dwayne Jackson in 2003. At some point David was sentenced to 5 years in jail. However she still had Conley's name on one FB and was still FB friends with him. She also had a FB page that carried Jackson's last name as hers.

Pis of the exterior and interior of the 1235sq ft, 3 bedroom house can be seen here LINK From the looks of the cramped home, the 8 people living there were like shooting fish in a barrel. Even if they escaped out the back door, the surrounding 6 ft wood fence would likely have trapped them or at least made it hard to get out.

She had one child with Conley and 5(?) with Jackson. She also had at least one older child who had kids in another state who appears to be Conley's child as well.

Her 11 year old has had a FB since she was 9. She thought it was cute that he 6 year old was dancing to Rhianna. (

Apparently police had had a few calls to do a "welfare check" in the past few days but could not break in to do so. It was only when they spotted a child's dead body that they had the authority to act.