The family’s sprawling mansion — estimated to be worth USD 5.45 million — went into foreclosure a year ago
Our Bureau
Dover, MA
Rakesh Kamal, 57, and his wife, Teena, 54, a wealthy Indian-origin couple and their teenage daughter, 18 year old Ariana, were found dead in their $5 million mansion in the US state of Massachusetts. The district attorney, who described the ‘terrible tragedy’ as a ‘domestic violence situation’, said a gun was found near the husband’s body. The couple appeared to have faced financial problems in recent years, online records show.
Teena and her husband, who also went by the name Rick, had previously run a now-defunct education systems company called EduNova. The district attorney refused to speculate on a motive for the slayings.
The grim discovery of their bodies was made after a relative had stopped by to check on the family members after not hearing from them in one or two days, the district attorney said.
“I hate to see it at any time,” the attorney added of domestic violence incidents. “I think some of the tensions that people feel in relationships often come out around the holidays.”
The district attorney said the investigation into the slayings was ongoing and that investigators had worked the crime scene through much of the night.
The family’s sprawling mansion — estimated to be worth USD 5.45 million — went into foreclosure a year ago and was sold to the Massachusetts-based Wilsondale Associates LLC for USD 3 million. The Kamals had purchased the 19,000-square-foot estate – which boasts 11 bedrooms – for USD 4 million in 2019, according to the records, according to media reports.
Their company was launched in 2016 but was dissolved in December 2021, state records show.
Teena filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in September 2022 – listing between USD 1 million and USD 10 million in liabilities, filings show. The case, however, was dismissed two months later due to insufficient documentation.
Teena, who was a Harvard alumna, was listed as one of the board of directors for the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. Her online bio touted her more than three decades of working in the education and technology industries.
Meanwhile, the couple’s daughter was a student at Middlebury College, a USD 64,800-a-year private liberal arts school in Vermont, where she was studying neuroscience, according to her LinkedIn.
