Tulsa Suburb Struggles to Cope With Horrors Found in Home

People flock to the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow for its idyllic low-crime and low-drama scene

An investigator walks past a tarp covering a body in the front yard of a house in Broken Arrow, Okla., Thursday, July 23, 2015. AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

BROKEN ARROW, Okla.—People flock to the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow for its idyllic low-crime and low-drama scene. A lush green belt encircles the Indian Springs III subdivision, where residents zoom around in golf carts and silver-haired homeowners are usually home to take delivery of the mail.

But neighbors there struggled Thursday to make sense of the horrors discovered in a gray barn-like home of a family of nine — the parents and three children stabbed to death and a fourth child wounded but alive near the front door.