Senseless crime still a mystery 10 years later - Abernathy murders

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Senseless crime still a mystery 10 years later - Neal and Brenden Abernathy Murders
By Karl Fischer
CONTRA COSTA TIMES

Jose Carlos Fajardo/Contra Costa Times
Marla Abernathy and her daughter Elaine Urruty place flowers at the graves of Neal Abernathy and his son Brendan at Mountain Shadow Cemetery on Thursday.
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SONORA - Cut grass clings to names of the dead after they mow at Mountain Shadow Cemetery, the grave-studded hill where the Abernathys come to mourn.

"I guess they can't avoid it," said Elaine Urruty, dusting a few blades off the stone shared by her brother and nephew, Neal and Brendan Abernathy.

Not much changes from month to month, year to year, at the side of this Gold Country plot. A stuffed toy tabby cat sits beside the stone today, still damp from recent snow. Who left it, none could say.

Living without answers to little questions comes naturally to those who remember Neal and Brendan. They know for certain only that father and son are gone, shot dead in their Hercules home 10 years ago, for who knows what or why.

"It seriously makes no sense," said Jon Abernathy, Neal's older brother. "There was really nothing to profit from their deaths." snip

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