Holly, sorry, it doesn't work that way. WBOY covers the news. You made the news. If you don't want WBOY to mention you, don't be in the news cycle. If he abused you during your entire pregnancy, and you didn't move away, you are partially to blame. You need to take your family's well-being into your own hands and call the police on somebody when this happens. If he beats you up when you are pregnant, than he will also abuse your children as they are growing up. and I know they don't deserve that type of treatment. so while he is to blame for hurting you, you are also to blame for allowing it to continue to happen. there are many government agencies out there that can help you, the police are just one of them.

If seeing this all over the news is too painful then you shouldnt add fuel to the fire and tell everyone about the abuse you suffered. I feel for you and your family but reading about the allegations doesnt help anyone involved. I hope Doug gets the help he needs. Sadly, with the internet it can be removed from a website but can not be removed from search engines. It will always be available to someone. Again, I am sorry you are going thru so much pain but we are all outsiders looking in. I will say an extra prayer for all involved.

And another thing I would like to say is WBOY needs to remove this and all comments,videos, along with other news stations because you have no idea the pain you are causing us. THIS IS PAINFULL TO HAVE TO HEAR AND SEE EVERYWHERE HIS FAMILY GOES DONT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? And if anyone wants to help, email WBOY and other media stations telling them you would like this removed, it would do a great deal for us thank you as I already called twice only to get ignored and talked down to. And again please please your prayers help.

If this comment isnt posted again I am going on radio or somewhere to tell all and tell that WBOY wont post my comments or listen to me when I tell them to stop exploiting our familys pain.... the "kind doug" you knew I knew as well briefly. And to those people who say that I provoked him... you have no idea what I have been thru or who I am. I still love Doug and pray for him and it pains me deeply that he had abused me for over year, but I lived in fear, I was beaten durring my entire 9mths of pregnancy. This isnt his first offense. And Doug is mentally ill and I have tried and tried to help him in every way I could. Everyone who knows us knows that. And that he provoked himself. Even if I had said or done somethng, it was too far when children were involved. Imagine being me, a woman who moved states away from everything she knew trusting a man with her and her sons life, given him EVERYTHING, her finances, her time, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and forgiveness that most people wouldnt ..evrything she had including a son and she gotten nothng but pain and no understanding of why the person that loves and cares and been there for him the most was the one he hurt. YOU HAVE NO IDEA so PLEASE take a moment to think ofcourse hes a awsome person outside you think he wants anyone to know what he does inside? This video needs to be removed now, I will call and call WBOY till they listen to me...and for those who want to condem him, pray for him, please, thats one thing that I could ask for, PRAY for his family, my kids, me and exp HIM...

I know both Doug and His wife, I feel pain and sadness for both of them. Stresses can make any one snap.....no that still doesn't give him an excuse for taking his frustrations to the extreme. Neither of them are perfect and both of them have issues. It's sad that things had to come to this point. I pray for the whole family and the families involved. I hope Doug get's the help he needs and both him and his wife move on to a more healthy life style, rather they stay together or not.

A - you are an idiot. There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for doing what has been reported he did. Yes, I pray for them. I pray he never sees those children again. I don't care what she may have done to "deserve" this, or "provoke" this, nobody "deserves" this type of treatment. He is lucky he didn't get shot by the police. He certainly "deserved" to be shot when he held his family at gunpoint with a loaded assault rifle. Anybody who can possibly defend him, no matter what the circumstances, is a moron.

Calculate his age people...if he's 30..then he'd be 12 if he was in Desert Storm. If he's 30 he was born 1979 and add 18 yrs up and that's 1997. Could've been there but not during Desert Storm version..that's 1991..

I feel so sorry for anyone who can say that Mr. Basford was pushed into holding his family hostage and hitting his wife in the face with the butt of a gun. Yes this man has issues but NO ONE and I MEAN NO ONE has the right to hold their family hostage and hit his spouse and this was not the first time he had just been in trouble for a domestic at the end of September. I am not saying this man is not a good person because yes there is stressful things in life a good person do crazy things but the thing about this is everyone is trying to say his wife pushed him to this NO ONE can make you do anything one has a mind and one makes their one choices. Mr.Basford made his and now he will have to pay for his actions. Does anyone realize that a person is killed every 30 minutes from domestic violence and yes this was an act of domestic violence. I wish people would realize that if you now this is going on in a home and do nothing about it then you are just as guilty as the person doing the act.

WE LIVE IN SUCH A HYPOCRITICAL WORLD!

JUDGE NOT,,LEAST YE BE JUDGED.

ANYONE THAT THINKS THEY ARE ANY BETTER THAN THIS MAN ARE SIMPLY FOOLS. ANY PERSON CAN BE PUSHED BY OTHERS OR CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THEIR BREAKING POINT. I DO NOT KNOW THIS MAN PERSONALLY BUT LET HIM WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE.

there is more to the story it is not the first incident with him, but hopefully he will get help and this will be the last. for everyone at stake.

To Annoymous and Mike. Thank you for understanding my point. You both understand that there is more to the story that is being said. And no Doug was not in Desert Storm, however he was in the Air Force and spent time overseas as an MP. Like I said before, I'm not justifying his behavior. The Basford family has been through enough, and they don't need the judgement from others.

I don't think he was in desert storm that was in the early 90's but i am fairly sure that his round with the air force did a number on him mentally. Doug is a very intelligent and kind person, I would've trusted the guy with my life any time and I didn't even know him THAT well. Something has had to push him over the edge to make him do this. It just goes to show that the human mind and our feelings are more fragile than we think.

Ummmmm No matter what happened to this gentleman would ever justify his behavior. he involved not just a woman but children. Children that probably had no idea what was going on!! He may be traumatized by stuff that's happened in his life but it does not give him the right to traumatize others. Not exceptable!!!!!!!! I hope everyone will be praying for both sets of families!

there is more to this than anyone knows., and yes he really needs to get help.

I don't personally know this guy. But a co-worker of mine is good friends with him and I am informed that he is a Dessert Storm veteran and suffers from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). God only knows what he went through over there. While it doesn't excuse this behavior it might help explain it. Thankfully no one was heart. Maybe the VA or someone can help him with the PTSD. Prison won't.

This aint pleasant. I aint spoke to Doug in over a year but i consider him a friend of which i care about. Great person to be around. He's a deep thinker concerned about the state of the world/USA and its future. Whatever was on his mind that day idk but its doubtful he woke up and decided to do this. Girl pushed him over the edge. But thats no excuse to cross that line. Im praying for ya buddy.

I went to school with him since we were 13...I know him very well and can tell you this is a different person. I also know he loves his wife and kids....I have seen him with them...I do not know what caused this...but I can say it was inevitable that somehting was going to happen here...I am just glad it ended this way and now maybe he will get some help...Praying for him and his entire family...they (the Basfords) also lost a father recently...so instead of judging them...pray for them...

yes he needs help.but i'm sure he was prevoked though!!!

I didn't take what "G" said as judging. It was a simple question. What is wrong with people? Clearly something is WRONG or this incident wouldn't have happened. I know Mr. Basford, and I am not "judging" him, but clearly something is going on in his life right now that is not good, which means something is "wrong" with him at this time. I'm sure you are a kind person and you were only trying to protect the victims and their families, but please think before you lash out. People are entitled to have their say on here and what "G" said was not so bad.

Seriously A? What good reason could someone have for holding a woman and children hostage? With a weapon? There is no excuse for it, period. Yes, there probably is more to the story, but not enough to ever convince me that his actions were justified.

Yes I DO remember those incidents. I am from this town where the tragedy happened of the murder/suicide happened. I'm not denying that the young man you speak of needs help. And I'm not saying I'm not thankful that no one was hurt. However, did you ever stop to think that there is more to the situation that was not told by the media? I bet the answer is no. You're so quick to stand up on your high horse and judge the situation and the people involved when you don't even take the time to think of what really happened. And trust me... there is more to the situation. But it's okay, you can go back in live in your ignorant bubble. I'll stick to gaining all of the facts before I put my two cents in.

why wait to get the facts. do u forget when the mother and daughter where killed and the son was stabbed by the husband and father who killed himself after the incident back in oct of 98. the son is still dealing with seeing his family killed. Or the young women killed in martinsburg during a hostage stand off. I thank Taylor County police for bringing this incident to an end with no one being injured or killed. You ought to be thanking god above no one was hurt. Now maybe this young man can get the help he needs and yes he needs help.

Maybe you should get all the facts before you judge. And maybe you should think of the victim's family before you judge.

I heard about this on the radio today. What's wrong with people?