Sunday, August 9, 2009

Jackson County, MI: Police Investigating Murder-Suicide in Jackson County


2009-08-07 17:41:40

A Jackson county man that was known to neighbors as decent and quiet is being looked at as a murder suspect.

Here's what we know, Jackson County Sheriff's deputies responded around 9 p.m. Thursday to the home of 73-year-old Enoch Fellenberger.

They found him and the woman he was dating, 49-year-old Robin Elliott both dead in what the sheriff's office is calling a murder-suicide.

A dog that is now without a master, standing guard at a green, modest home in rural Jackson county.

A home where Robin Elliott was found dead by her daughter Thursday night.

The sheriffs department saying Elliott shot twice in the head by Enoch Fellenberger, who then turned the 22-pistol on himself.

A single bullet to the head killed him.

"He did like to drink. He could get ornery when he drank," Undersherriff Tom Finco tells us.

Who neighbors say bought and sold antique cars.

A neighbor who wouldn't go on camera saw Fellenberger driving Tuesday morning.

This could have been the last person other than Elliott who saw him alive.

The sheriff department saying the murder-suicide happened days before the two were found Thursday night by Elliott's daughter.

We tried to track down that daughter with no luck.

"The only time he was down here was when he came to my yard sale that I had," says neighbor Joyce Watson.

A neighbor saying that Fellenberger had lived in the home since 1986.

Before Elliott, Fellenberger had dated a woman in her 80s, became very lonely when that woman dumped him, then met Elliott.

The daughter who found the two dead didn't know how long the two had been dating.

An autopsy was performed Friday and police are waiting to see if the tests show Fellenberger had been drinking.


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