10/04/2026
A psychologist in the Phoenix area is calling the recent cluster of deaths in Peoria, Deer Valley, and Scottsdale a possible contagion effect. One event gets covered. Someone already in crisis sees it and decides this is the moment.
T.A.C.T. 48 is the crew that gets the call after the news trucks leave. We do not publish the addresses. We do not describe the rooms. What we do see, over and over, is a family that now has a house they cannot walk back into.
Adults 75 and older have the highest su***de rate of any age group in the country. Caregiver fatigue is part of that story, and it rarely gets said out loud until it is too late.
If you are in it, or someone you love is, call or text 988. That conversation is the part that can still change the outcome. The cleanup is what happens when it does not. #988
A man and a woman died Friday night in what Scottsdale police believe was a murder-su***de, marking the third similar death investigation in the Valley in the last month.