Bernie Madoff's sister and her husband found dead in apparent murder-suicide
Source: Associated Press
Palm Beach county sheriff says Sondra Wiener, 87, and 90-year-old husband Marvin Wiener found dead on Thursday
Associated Press in Palm Beach, Florida
Sun 20 Feb 2022 18.25 EST
The sister of the Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead in Florida in what investigators said was an apparent murder-suicide.
The Palm Beach county sheriffs office on Sunday identified the couple as 87-year-old Sondra Wiener of Boynton Beach and her 90-year-old husband, Marvin Wiener.
They were found unresponsive with gunshot wounds on Thursday afternoon, inside their residence.
Detectives from the violent crimes division arrived on scene to investigate further, the sheriffs office said. After further investigation it appears to be a murder-suicide.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/20/bernie-madoff-sister-husband-dead-murder-suicide
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cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)because they were terminally ill and or ill with something like severe Alzheimer's and took their own life afterwards because they felt they could not live without them.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)that was what I assumed.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)Possibly there was a pact, even.
Rocknation
(44,576 posts)by a full-time caregiving spouse of a deteriorating "home hospice" brain cancer patient -- she's posted that she's "beginning to lose (her) composure."
Rocknation
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)I was beginning to feel like I might have to do something to hasten her death.It was in her bones too and most of the time the Fentanyl patches worked, but sometimes she had to take morphine for breakthrough pain. It's so hard to watch someone you love suffer.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)to feel one has no other choice if this is what it appears to be.