CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who fatally shot his wife, then himself, had called 911 to report a murder-suicide and said he couldn't stay on the line because he was "the other half," the attorney general's office said Thursday.
When police got to the Charlestown home of Bettina and Roderic Lavoie last August, they found the bodies of the couple seated together on a bench. There were two type-written letters from Roderic Lavoie entitled "After I Die" and "What Happened," said Jeffery Strelzin, senior assistant attorney general. He released a statement on his office's completed investigation into the deaths.
Autopsies determined that Mrs. Lavoie died Aug. 19, 2010, of a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. She was shot as she went out to her car to go to work, according to the attorney general's office. After shooting her, Lavoie dragged his wife's body onto the bench, sat down next to her, called his mother about what was happening, and then police. He then shot himself in the head, Strelzin said.
As described by the attorney general's office, the letters indicated that Roderic Lavoie, 48, had been ill and that he and his wife, 50, were having marital problems. The letters said she wanted to leave him and he suspected she was seeing someone else, so he put a GPS tracking device on her car.
A male co-worker of Mrs. Lavoie's later confirmed to the attorney general's office that he had been having a romantic relationship with her. He said she told him that her husband would probably shoot them both if he found out she was involved with another man, Strelzin said in the statement.
The couple had been married for 28 years. Lavoie told his mother and son that they were having problems last July, Strelzin said. Lavoie also told his mother he would not do anything "stupid" like his brother had done, referring to his brother's suicide years earlier due to marital problems.
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