CBS4 Doppelgangers Jewish Celebrities Signs of Fail 2010 Celebrity Deaths A welfare check in Tamarac turned tragic Monday as Broward Sheriff's deputies found the bodies of an elderly couple, their deaths the result of an apparent murder suicide.
According to neighbors the couple, who lived in the 7-thousand block of NW 106th Avenue, were in declining health.
The sheriff's office said the husband recently sent a letter to a relative in New Jersey telling him that he planned to kill his wife and then himself. The letter threatened that by the time the relative received it in the mail, it would be too late to stop the plan. It was this relative who contacted the sheriff's office to have them check on the couple.
"It's a very sad situation," Broward Sheriff's Office Spokesperson Dani Moschella told reporters. "They may have had health problems and it looks like the husband shot and killed his wife and then shot and killed himself."
BSO detectives say it appears that the husband shot his wife and then himself sometime after Friday evening. He apparently planned the murder-suicide for some time before executing his plan, mailing the letter to the relative late last week.
The BSO has not released the names of the couple pending notification of next of kin.
Next door neighbor Kate Dorn told CBS 4's Carey Codd that the elderly woman loved to come over each day to pet their cocker spaniel, Gus.
"She was the kindest, sweetest lady," Dorn said. "They were just like a Romeo and Juliet that lived out this little life of their own in their own little circle and I guess they've come across hard times."
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