Published February 24, 2021 •
Updated on February 25, 2021 at 3:09 am
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An elderly married couple were found dead in their New York home in what officials believe may have been a murder-suicide.
Police responded to a home in the Hudson Valley town of Mount Hope Wednesday morning after a man called to report a possible burglary happening, state police said. The caller identified himself as Russell Claybrook, and claimed that someone may have been inside his home on Mount Hope Road.
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New York State Police and town police entered the home and found a woman who had died in a bed in a rear bedroom. On the floor next to the bed she was found in was a man who had also died.