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UPDATE: Bloody clothes and suicide note, not enough for murder suspect's mom to notify police

By Nicole Oliverio

CHARLOTTE COUNTY - On April 25th, at 11 o'clock in the morning, 8-year-old, Peter Shalin showed up at his grandmother's front door in Central Florida. He was covered in blood, carrying a suitcase, which contained a letter from his step-father, Scott Huss.

Scott Huss is accused of stabbing his wife, Yana Huss, to death. New documents released by the state's attorneys office say the 8-year-old witnessed the murder, then Huss dropped the boy off at his mother's home in Longwood.

Those reports show, Joyce Huss, Scott's mother found Peter at 11 a.m. She then contacted Scott and he told her, "don't tell anyone, don't call anybody."

Ten minutes later, Joyce Huss picked up her other son, with Peter. Michael Huss, Scott's brother, told detectives, "I had notice some stains on his shirt, didn't really think much of 'em." He went on to say, "He (Peter) did tell us his mother was stabbed and that she was in the hospital."

But neither Joyce nor Michael Huss called police. They went to lunch, and took the boy with them.

"Lunch. She had lunch and my daughter is dead," said Eleana Kuchinskaya, Yana Huss's mother. "And Peter has big stress and she didn't help. I don't understand," said the Russian native, fighting back tears. "Peter was in her house. She had lunch with her other son, and the whole time, Peter was in clothes with much blood."

The documents went on to show that at one o'clock, Joyce Huss dropped her son, Michael, back at home. That's when Peter told them, still in the blood stained clothes, "my mom is dead... my mom is dead."

Joyce Huss did not call police, instead she took Peter to Wal-Mart to buy new clothes.

In a written statement to Longwood Police, Huss wrote, "on the way to Wal-Mart he did say, 'if she is dead, I may be here a long time."

Reports say it wasn't until 2 p.m. that Joyce Huss read the 12-page manifesto Scott left her. The letter was an apparent suicide note. After Huss read the note, she called her son Michael, he went to home, and then he called authorities. That happened at 2:40 p.m., nearly four hours after Peter first appeared. Police officers from Longwood didn't arrive until 3:30 p.m. for questioning.

"Nobody called to police. Nobody. Why? I cannot understand why she is still not in jail," cried Kuchinskaya. "11 to 2 o'clock. 2:15, 2:45, Peter was with Scott's mother and she did not call police."

Interviews with Scott's relatives reveal Peter initially told them "a man broke into his home and stabbed his mother." He later broke down and admitted it was his step-father, Scott, who killed his mother. Peter was heard saying, "he killed my mother and told me not to tell, or he was going to come back and kill me."

Charlotte County deputies found Yana Huss dead inside her Port Charlotte home around 4:30 p.m. It is believed she died that morning at 7:30.

Meanwhile, Tallahassee police caught suspect, Scott Huss, later that night around 9:30. Documents reveal Joyce Huss spoke to her son on the phone several times that day. She also received an email from him just an hour before he was arrested.

Kuchinskaya, believes Huss was trying to protect Scott, but that she did not think about Peter.

Kuchinskaya is also upset that just two days after her daughter's murder, Joyce Huss gave a television interview, and showed pictures of Yana in a bikini.

"I'm sad. I'm very sad. This is my pain and this give me more pain," she said.

Scott Huss is currently in the Charlotte County Jail and faces second degree murder charges.
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