Homicide squad investigators have released Tullamarine father Tomislav Perinovic without charge and say they've formed a preliminary view that the deaths of a woman and her three young children was murder-suicide.
A mother found dead with her three children in their home in Melbourne s northwest killed her daughters and son before taking her own life. Homicide detectives believe 42-year-old Katie Perinovic killed the children then took her own life in the family home in Tullamarine. Investigators reached that conclusion after analysing the crime scene and interviewing the distraught husband and father, Tomislav Perinovic. He found the bodies of his wife and children inside the family home in Burgess St and made a frantic call to triple-0 on Thursday at 12.20pm. Homicide squad detectives will now prepare a report for the coroner over the deaths of Mrs Perinovic and Claire, 7, Anna, 5, and Matthew, 3.