The Christmas Cabin Murders
When home invaders killed their family, sisters Linae and Trish Tiede faced a desperate fight for survival.
As Christmas approached in 1990, 20-year-old Linae Tiede and her 16-year-old sister Trish could barely have been happier. They were about to gather with their loved ones to spend the festive season at a cabin in the mountains that their family owned in Utah.
Situated in Weber Canyon near Oakley, it was more than two miles off the road and nicknamed ‘Tiede’s Tranquillity’ for the peace and solitude it offered. Indeed, so remote was its location that it could only be reached by snowmobile during the winter.
Linae recalled in an interview with CBS’s 48 Hours that her mother Kaye Tidwell Tiede (49) and her grandmother Beth Tidwell Potts (70) had made the cabin the picture of Christmas cosiness inside.
“My mom even had our Christmas stockings hung under the fireplace mantel,” she said.
Crossing paths with evil
On December 22nd 1990, the family left the cabin to finish some last-minute Christmas shopping in Salt Lake City. Little did they know that while they were gone, two men named Von Lester Taylor and Edward Steven Deli had broken in.
