A father and his 17-year-old twins dead in an Orange County murder-suicide
The sheriff's office calls it an apparent murder-suicide, and FOX 35 Orlando's short report reached far more people than the station's uploads usually do.
FOX 35 OrlandoStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 73,899 views a day, 42 times a normal first day on this channel (1,737).
Florida dad stabs 17-year-old twins, kills self in murder-suicide: Deputies
It was a story from home. On Friday the Orange County Sheriff's Office said a father is believed to have killed his 17-year-old twin children and then himself, in what investigators are calling an apparent murder-suicide. FOX 35 Orlando posted the news under the deputies' own wording.
Six hours later the report had close to 30,000 views. A new video on the WOFL-TV channel usually ends its whole first day below 2,000. The rest of the station's Friday ran at its usual pace: a weekend forecast from senior meteorologist Noah Bergren and a live stream tracking the rain each stayed in the hundreds or low thousands.
The report keeps to what the sheriff's office released. More than 300 comments came in during those first hours, and most of them ask the same thing: how a parent could do this. Several commenters say it feels as if they hear of cases like it more often lately. A number of parents with teenagers of their own write about their sons and daughters of the same age.
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- Channel
- FOX 35 Orlando
- Subscribers
- 474,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,378,936
- Channel views, pace per day
- 137,471 (on a normal day: 204,577)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 29,325 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 73,899
The numbers
The numbers below show how far this report traveled in its first six hours, set against the channel's usual start.
