3 Bodies Found In Amador County Home In Suspected Double Murder-Suicide
PINE GROVE (CBS13) - Authorities found three bodies inside of an Amador County home early Thursday morning in a suspected double murder-suicide.
The incident happened a home along Hilltop Street in the Pine Grove area.
The Amador County Sheriff's Department says deputies responded just after 3 a.m. to investigate a possible suicide. The deputies soon found three people dead inside the home.
Scene of the murder-suicide investigation in Amador County. (Credit; Bill Lavallie at the Ledger Dispatch)
All three had apparent gunshot wounds, deputies say.
The three have been identified by the Amador County sheriff as 60-year-old Richard Thayer II, 26-year-old Jacob Jedidiah Thayer and 27-year-old Marie Ann Leonetti. Detectives have said not how, if at all, the three are related.
Detectives are still at the scene investigating.