Services for Lutz homicide victims set

LUTZ -- The funeral for the victims of a triple homicide will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Gateway Christian Center Assembly of God, 14200 Central Avenue North, Tampa.

On Mother's Day, Edward Allen Covington choked, beat, stabbed and dismembered his girlfriend and her two children inside the woman's mobile home, Hillsborough sheriff's deputies say. He also killed the family dog, they say.

Keith and Barbara Freiberg discovered their daughter, Lisa, and their two grandchildren, Zachary and Savannah, the next morning. Lisa was 26 years old; Zachary, 7; and Savannah, 2.

To read Keith and Barbara Freiberg's hour-long interview with the St. Petersburg Times, click here.

Rodney Thrash, Times staff writer