Florida man suspected of killing his 17-year-old twins before taking his own life
A father and his 17-year-old twins were found dead at their home in Orange County, Florida, after a neighbour requested a welfare check. Authorities are investigating the deaths as an apparent murder-suicide, and believe the father killed the twins before taking his own life.
Deputies found the siblings in the living room with multiple stab wounds and their father in the main bedroom. The neighbour had not seen the family for about a week; the twins’ mother had died in June. The investigation is ongoing, and details about when the deaths occurred and how the father died have not been released.
- Florida deputies found a father and his 17-year-old twins dead at home.
- Investigators believe the father killed the twins before taking his own life.
- A neighbour requested a welfare check after seeing no sign of the family for a week.
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Orange County is in central Florida and includes the city of Orlando. In the United States, local sheriff’s offices investigate many deaths and can ask the public for information while an inquiry is under way.
A murder-suicide is a term used when investigators believe someone killed another person and then died by suicide. Such findings can take time to confirm, and authorities may withhold details while they establish what happened. The deaths have also left questions about the family’s circumstances, including the recent loss of the twins’ mother.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Florida father and teen twins found dead in home in apparent murder-suicide”.