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A vehicle from the Clark County Coroner’s Office is parked in the driveway Friday of a home at 1516 Willowbark Court, where authorities are investigating a murder-suicide that occurred a day earlier.
Published Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 | 10:47 a.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 | 5:13 p.m.
Murder-suicide
Metro Police said today that the body of a woman found dead Thursday during a murder-suicide investigation was found in a freezer -- and possibly had been there for two years.
Officers responded about 1:52 p.m. Thursday to the home in the 1500 block of Willowbark Court near West Charleston Boulevard and Fort Apache Road to conduct a welfare check. After getting no response from knocking, they needed a locksmith to get in the front door, police said today.
The Metro Police Records Bureau had received a letter Thursday from the deceased woman's husband indicating he had harmed himself and his wife, police said.
Officers found the man believed to be the woman's husband in a master bedroom closet, police said. He died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
After finding the man, police then discovered the woman inside a freezer in a nearby room. Homicide detectives said the woman had been in the freezer for 18 months to two years.
There have been no reports filed with Metro Police noting the dead woman as missing, probably because she had no local relatives, detectives said.
The man’s daughter arrived in Las Vegas Friday afternoon. Felicia Borla of the Clark County Coroner’s Office said the daughter might not be able to help provide a positive identification of the man because of the gunshot wound.
The identities of both people and the exact cause and manner of death will be released by the Clark County Coroner's Office.
When Borla arrived at the house today she sifted through boxes stacked in the front room of the house. After several hours, she said she discovered the man’s dentist. She said she contacted the dentist’s office and will be receiving his dental records soon.
As for the woman, Borla said identifying her could take longer because of the frozen state of the body.
Neighbors drove by while others watched as coroner's office workers entered the house on Friday. One resident who has lived in the neighborhood since 1994 said this was the worst case of violence he can remember.
This is the fourth murder-suicide case in the Las Vegas Valley in 12 days.
In a separate case, police responded to a call Monday from a housekeeper who discovered a 29-year-old woman shot to death by her boyfriend at a home near Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch Boulevard. The woman's boyfriend had a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was found in another room at the house, police said.
In another case, a 51-year-old man shot and killed his girlfriend with a rifle on Sept. 7 inside their northwest valley home, police said.
And a Texas man shot and killed a North Las Vegas woman on Sept. 5 before shooting himself, police said. He died in a hospital several days later.
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Don't buy any used freezers in Las Vegas.
The LV housing collapse and rotten economy is taking its toll in many ways. Four murder/suicides in less than a fortnight? Heaven help us all!
How many more lives will our current recession take?
I chi-wa-wa
Seems like blaming this on the economy is too simple. There had to be something else going on in these people lives...maybe mental illness. You and I are living through the same rotten economy, and I for one am not going down that road. There are to many good things to live for.
If you go so far as to wanting to kill yourself, That's one thing. To kill another human over YOUR problems is the ultimate sin to me. I will never understand this lack of human appreciation for life.
selfish
sound real bad, what next. I agree theone1.
lcdrmandingonamvet:
NICE I ENJOYED THE READ.
People who blame this on politicians are goof balls.
Murderers who commit suicide are sick people, in good times and bad.
Give the devil his due.
Stop blaming murders on the government! I'm sick of everything turning into politics on this site. Murder-suicides are far from politics. Keep the politics away. We will never know the true reasoning behind these selfish acts. Both parties are dead in this situation. The police will look to see if there were any prior domestic violence calls to the home. But really, the police will never know the reasoning behind these type of deaths either. It's unfortunate.
lcdrmandingonamvet: LMAO
The Bush-Klan made the dingos eat my baby
WE WILL NOT KNOW WHAT EXACTLY HAPPEN, CAUSE THE PEOPLE INVOLVE ARE ALL DEAD, OR SICK IN THE HOSPITAL.
BUT THE ROOT TO ALL OF THIS IS THE ECONOMIC, CRISIS.
PEOPLE GOT LAID OFF, REDUCE HRS, OR RECEIVED LETTERS FROM CREDIT CARD COMPANIES LEFT AND RIGHT AND THEY START ARGUING THAT LEADS TO THE KILLING.
WE WILL NEVER KNOW.....AND THEN AGAIN, WE KEEP ASKING WHOSE NEXT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WILL GO TO THIS KIND DEATH. REAL DISGUSTING. YOU CAN NEVER DIE OF NATURAL CAUSE ANYMORE...JUST KEEP ON LIVING AND SEE WHAT LIFE THROW TO US TO LIVE WITH.
white people at their best. Always killing their family and freezing the bodies. Yall need help
OOOHHH, how sad, in a nice area of town.....
the daughter has to explain her absence for the last 12 months ; why didnt she communicate w/ her parents for so long?
Yes. How sad this would happen in Summerlin. Clearly it would be acceptable in a less-affluent area.
See what happens when you don't know your neighbors.
tbrownbag: You're racist!!
Oh wait, only white people can be racist. I am SO sorry I slapped a label on you that isn't true.
Talk about a stiff one, wow how long it took to thraw her out
Wow.. Thats cold!! (pun intended)
Sad that people associate material objects and money with happiness. People need to go back in time and look at the real issues and get back to basics. We don't care about the car or home you live in or the amount of money you have. If you live life to the fullest, treat people with respect and law abiding you couldn't ask for more.
dipstick
you state .... the daughter has to explain her absence for the last 12 months ; why didnt she communicate w/ her parents for so long?
maybe one of the 2 parents were not her biological parent and there was no reason to communicate