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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fred Neal remembers being inside his house and hearing the Mallos scream at their kids outside.
"They were always outside. They would get pretty wild," he said. "You could hear them calling the kids names. 'Little bastard.' 'Little bitch.' "
On Thursday, Carolyn Mallo, 55, Alexander Doran (who police say also uses the last name Mallo), 67, and Trina Mallo, 27, were arrested on child endangerment charges because of the conditions found in their home at 1319 Frame St., said Sgt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department.
Police say the three are adult relatives of the 14-year-old boy accused of killing an 82-year-old woman in her West Side home over the weekend.
During his arraignment, Doran told Kanawha County Magistrate Paris Workman that he had one dependent: 14-year-old Thomas Mallo.
The house where the Mallo family lived was condemned on Thursday. The windows to the home are boarded up, but trash and toys are still strewn about the yard. Flowers are neatly planted along the fence, feet from where a truck motor sits on the lawn.
"He [the 14-year-old accused in the slaying] dug up the ground for my vegetable garden," said a woman who lived a few houses down. She declined to give her name. "He seemed like a nice little kid but the family in general were the scariest people I've seen in my life."
'Hell, West Virginia'
A lot of people in the neighborhood know Farris Mallo, one Carolyn Mallo and Doran's three sons, Neal said.
"He's fixed a bunch of the neighbors' cars," he said.
One of the Mallos ran into Neal's fence once with a car. It took awhile, but eventually they came and fixed it, he said.
"They were always pretty cool with me," he said.
Neal said about a year ago, Child Protective Services came and took the two young children - a 6-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy - out of the house. They were allowed to come back after the house was cleaned up, he said. Others from the neighborhood told the same story.
Alexandrio Michael Mallo - another of the three sons - sexually abused the 7-year-old, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. He was charged earlier this month with first-degree sexual abuse. He struck the boy's privates with a ruler, among other things, according to the complaint.
Alexandrio, 23, is the boy's uncle, Cooper said.
Trina Mallo, mother of the two youngest children, has a MySpace Web page with a picture of the grim reaper in the background. Her profile states that she attended the West Virginia Junior College's medial assistant program in 2006 and 2007. Her religion is listed as Wiccan. Her location is listed as "Hell, West Virginia."
A condemned home
Another neighbor sat on her porch with her children on Thursday. She said her family used to take the 14-year-old now accused of murder with them to softball games and gave him clothes. The family had lived in the house for at least four years, she said.
"He was over here all the time," she said. "He was always a good kid. We're all distraught over it."
But the woman also remembers Sunday, when they found another of her neighbors, Phyllis Jean Phares, dead in her house on Frame Street across from the Mallo home. Police believe she was killed sometime late Saturday or early Sunday. The woman remembers how the 14-year-old was acting.
"He was so distant, so different," she said. "He seemed like he either saw what happened or knew something about it."
Phares' daughter found her on Sunday afternoon. Police searched the Mallo home as part of the homicide investigation, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
Police found Trina Mallo's two children, the 6-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy, living in the Frame Street house, with their mother and grandparents, Carolyn Mallo and Doran. Thomas Mallo is believed to be the brother of Trina Mallo and the uncle of the children.
"The conditions inside the residence were of such a dilapidated nature that one could not even walk through the house easily without coming into contact with some type of trash, old food, roaches, fecal matter, broken glass, other types of sharp, cutting instruments or other unknown and unsanitary substance," Detective A.T. Kuhner wrote in the criminal complaint.
The house has been condemned, Cooper said.
Carolyn Mallo, Doran and Trina Mallo were arraigned Thursday afternoon on the child endangerment charges.
Workman set bond for each of the defendants at $25,000 cash only.
Trina Mallo's MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/isis1234
Alexandrio Michael Mallo - charged with 1st degree sexual abuse for sexually assaulting 2 of the children:
The condemned house: