Murder-Suicide Facebook Post: Nancy Lopez Calls Fort Wayne, Ind. Police After Seeing Bart Heller's Status

A Washington woman alerted police to a murder-suicide in Indiana after she saw an acquaintance's Facebook status that said he'd killed two people and himself, because of a grudge.

Nancy Lopez saw this disturbing message on Saturday afternoon from Bart Heller, a friend on the social networking site:

"someone call 911. three dead bodies at 3229 lima road fort wayne indiana [SIC]," Heller's profile said, according to TV station WANE. "I've killed ryann, erin, and myself. people were warned not to f***ing play me and ruin me. they didn't listen. sorry about your luck."

Shortly after the message appeared on Heller's facebook profile, Lopez called Fort Wayne police. Authorities said they could see a motionless man on the floor and when they entered, they found two more bodies, according to WSBT.

Police have not said that Heller was the suspected shooter. But he was allegedly romantically linked to a woman about 20 years younger than he -- 19-year-old Erin Jehl. However, he supposedly became jealous of her friendship with 19-year-old Ryan Tipton, according to his friends that talked to TV station WWMT.

Authorities said on Sunday that they didn't have a motive for the slayings yet, The Associated Press reports.

Comments

[pslcitizen]

08:53 PM on 12/14/2011

Guess he showed them, nobody will be messing with him anymore...

[vacavillegaljena]

08:37 PM on 12/14/2011

I agree that the commercial before the vid is way inappropriate, almost laughable even though this is NOT a funny matter. Who plans these things? Sad situation, just goes to prove that we need to help the mentally ill at an early age PERIOD be persistent if you are a parent, if you dont like a doctor or a medication go on to the next one until you find the one that is helpful with the situation! the parents of this guy are just as much responsible I think ( someone that knew him for many years said he was always bi polar etc)

[Valerie Howard]

08:35 PM on 12/14/2011

Yeah, okay it doesn't add up...

Last word and testimony on Facebook? Too many fragile egos walking around. That's what happens when all the kids are winners at Little League. (NOT!)

[sherpeace]

06:33 PM on 12/14/2011

How does one kill oneself and then leave a Facebook message????? Are they sure they got the killer?

[may12553]

07:06 AM on 12/15/2011

I imagine he wrote the letter first. Forewarning.

[bobbypope66]

05:05 PM on 12/14/2011

The only shame in this type of thing is the suicide takes someone else with them. Message to all suicide cases...Do the suicide first, then do everybody else.

[Valerie Howard]

08:36 PM on 12/14/2011

lol! F & F

[Kathi Sevek Bova]

12:48 PM on 12/14/2011

Rupert Holmes sang the pina colada song

[Frances Sutton Winslow]

11:36 PM on 12/14/2011

sing it again so I can hear it

[psnowa]

12:30 PM on 12/14/2011

The motive is we are raising a bunch of babies who can not take rejection.

[maryann traveller]

11:35 AM on 12/14/2011

That's pretty neat--a dead guy posting on FB. How did he do that?

[sharonsillybird]

12:06 PM on 12/14/2011

Well my guess would be right before he pulled the trigger.LMAO

[maryann traveller]

02:30 PM on 12/14/2011

Yeah, but he said he was DEAD. LMAO

[pslcitizen]

08:54 PM on 12/14/2011

He probably figured by the time anyone would notice the post & not think it's a hoax, he would already be dead...

[ppllaanntt]

03:46 AM on 12/14/2011

is this the guy that sang that pina colada song?

[Di Gray]

09:03 PM on 12/13/2011

Let's hope this guy didn't start a new Facebook trend.

[MSUSPARTAN1974]

06:24 PM on 12/13/2011

Nothing Good to say about this everyone loses.

[Jamie Lemke Barrand]

05:00 PM on 12/13/2011

As someone who knew Bart and hung out with him years ago, I can say for sure now, looking back, he did have mental health issues of some sort. I tend to think he was manic-depressive, as he was either "I'm king of the world!" happy or so depressed he could barely function. I also remember that he did, in fact, think everything was about him ... how it made HIM feel, how it affected HIS life. He was always under the illusion that everyone did everything because of him or to "get" him. He was paranoid and he had an unrealistic view of just how important he was in other people's lives. It appears that just got worse as he got older, and this was the tragic result.

[laurenproof12]

09:17 PM on 12/13/2011

Sad that people in his life didn't get him help sooner.

[Ablecynic]

09:14 AM on 12/15/2011

The manic-depressive cycle is hard to deal with. When they are "ok" they don't want to talk about getting help and when they are depressed, they are too incapacitated to do anything. Untreated mental issues never get better.

[tonytonmsn]

04:35 PM on 12/13/2011

This was once called a crime of passion. The obvious.
This is very sad and it touches three or more families. My condolenses to all effected by this..

[ZackShorty]

04:26 PM on 12/13/2011

Oops! Did it again while sharing 'love; with Ma Bird. Typed Rebuplican instead of Republican. I give up! I'm a typo disaster that also sucks at spelling and punctuation. Oh well, I doubt it will ruin my sleeping habits.

[budshort]

05:06 PM on 12/13/2011

I cheat - I use spell check

[ZackShorty]

11:35 PM on 12/14/2011

Ya, I know, but it just doesn't pop up on HuffPost, or does it? I have to either go to my burned out old dictionary, or go to 'write'. and check it out there. If I really don't care about the subject, I just freaken wing it. People either get my point, or not. This is all just for fun anyway, so who really cares?

[PatA]

10:13 PM on 12/13/2011

There is something called spell check.

[ZackShorty]

11:27 PM on 12/14/2011

Really? How do you spell that? Thanks for the tip!

[ZackShorty]

01:36 PM on 12/15/2011

When I use spell check while commenting on HuffPost I have to go to 'write', type in the word and see what comes up. Is there an easier way? If so, I'd really like to know. Thank-you.

[mskitty71]

01:22 PM on 12/13/2011

"Hell have no furry like a woman scorned". Where is the equivalent saying for men? How many times have we read about a woman committing a murder/suicide?

[Susan Shaffer]

01:43 PM on 12/13/2011

women don't commit murder suicides generally.
I do remember one guy wrote a book on how to "get even" with a woman. One of the more inventive ideas was to replace all the clothes in the wardrobe with one size smaller.

[laurenproof12]

09:19 PM on 12/13/2011

That's GREAT! Haha...when my ex and I started seeing each other again, I guess he had a new girlfriend. When she found out she gave all of his clothes to goodwill. I thought that was a great idea too!

[pslcitizen]

08:57 PM on 12/14/2011

lol I would think that would just cause her to shop more...thus backfiring.