Glenelg North deaths: Suspected murder-suicide in Adelaide beachside suburb revealed as father and son
Two bodies found in a home in an affluent beachside suburb 15 hours apart in suspected murder-suicide are believed to be those of an elderly man and his son.
Emergency services were called to a home in Adelaide’s Glenelg North on Tuesday afternoon where a man, 88, was found dead at the scene.
Police were unable to determine the cause of death and launched an investigation.
Officers were called to the same address shortly after 4am on Wednesday, where a second man, 63, was found dead.
It is understood the two men found dead were father and son who lived together in the house.
Detectives and forensic officers have been examining the Kibby Avenue home for the past two days.
Inquiries continue after an elderly man, 88, and his son, 63, were found dead at this home in Glenelg North
Police removed two large desktop computers from the home, along with brown bags of evidence.
South Australian Police confirmed the incident is being treated as a murder-suicide.
“The investigation is in its early stages and further investigation is required by police to establish the circumstances surrounding both deaths,” the police statement said.
‘Both men are known to each other and lived at the address.’
The deaths have shocked residents of the quiet, leafy street, describing the men who lived there as quiet and friendly.
They also described their last sightings of the younger man, hours before he died.
Shocked neighbors recalled seeing the distraught son, 63, walking with a woman believed to be his partner shortly after the coroner visited the house on Tuesday afternoon.
“The man actually put his arm around her,” one woman told the newspaper Adelaide Advertiser.
“And because they were hugging each other and walking down the street there, I thought they were obviously sad about what happened.”
Police were seen removing brown bags of evidence from the home
Shocked neighbors described the men who lived in the house as quiet and friendly
Keith Miller told the pair that the older man had felt unwell that morning and had gone back to bed after breakfast.
‘I do not believe it. They were nice people, I don’t think so,” he said.
‘But everyone in the house got along well. I never heard any loud or strange noises from the house and they were all very friendly when we saw each other.’
The home last sold for $425,000 in September 2005, according to property records.
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
The deaths follow a shocking wave of domestic violence murders in South Australia, which occurred within a week.
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Detectives and forensic officers on Wednesday examined the home in Glenelg North where a father and son were found dead 15 hours apart in a suspected murder-suicide.
The father and son lived on a quiet, leafy street in an affluent beachside suburb of Adelaide