Arianna ‘Aria’ Kamal remembered as ‘brilliant’

The teen daughter of a wealthy Massachusetts family believed to have been killed in a murder-suicide this week was “brilliant” and “deeply spiritual,” according to one of her professors.

Arianna “Aria” Kamal, 18, was “a brilliant student and an amazing singer,” one of her teachers said in a statement after news emerged that Kamal and her parents had been found dead in their 27-room mansion in Dover, about 40 minutes outside Boston.

“She loved singing and was interested in going to Italy with the College opera group,” Melissa Hammerle wrote in the statement issued via Middlebury College, where Kamal, a freshman, studied neuroscience.

Kamal recently read at Middlebury’s Lessons and Carols service and sang in the College Choir, the school noted.

“She was connected and engaged in class, and passionate about everything she did,” Hammerle added.

“She was a beautiful writer and always did things 110 percent. She was a deeply spiritual person and dove into the material in the first-year seminar course.”

In a YouTube video titled “The Effects of Noise Frequency on Heart Rate Variability,” Kamal discussed the topic of how noise impacts the heart rate, noting, “I have sensory processing differences so I am really aware of the stress-inducing or stress-relieving effects of sound, personally.”

A 2023 graduate of the prestigious Milton Academy, Kamal studied Mindfulness in Education at Middlebury, a seminar taught by Hammerle.

Arianna was apparently home for Christmas break when she was found dead alongside her parents, Teena and Rakesh Kamal, in their $5.45 million home.

Their bodies were found at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and a gun was found near Rakesh Kamal, Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said.

The district attorney described the “terrible tragedy” as a “domestic violence situation.”

He declined to say whether all three family members were shot dead — and by whom.

Their bodies were discovered by a relative who went to check on them after not hearing from them for several days, cops said.

The Kamals appeared to have faced financial problems, according to online records.

Police said there was no record of past disturbances at the house or issues with the family.

The family’s sprawling mansion went into foreclosure a year ago and was sold to the Massachusetts-based Wilsondale Associates LLC for $3 million, according to property records obtained by The Post. 

The Kamals had purchased the 19,000-square-foot estate – which boasts 11 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms – for $4 million in 2019, according to the records.

Teena and her husband, who also went by Rick, had previously run a Massachusetts-based education systems company called EduNova.

The company was launched in 2016 but was dissolved in December 2021, state records show.

Teena Kamal filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in September 2022 – listing between $1 million and $10 million in liabilities, filings show.

The case, however, was dismissed two months later due to insufficient documentation. 

Teena, a Harvard alumnus, was listed as one of the board of directors for the American Red Cross of Massachusetts.