Murder-suicide claims wife and her estranged husband.Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard A man estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. from his wife went to her home and shot her dead early Saturday and then went back to his apartment and turned the gun on himself, Eugene police said. Jill Dierkes, 46, was found dead in her home at 2491 Mangan St. shortly after 4:30 a.m. Her husband, 53-year-old Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs A. Dierkes, was found dead in his nearby apartment later in the morning after police had surrounded sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. the building. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Eugene Police Department spokeswoman Pam Olshanski, the woman's 21-year-old daughter called 911 at 4:39 a.m. after being awakened a·wak·en tr. & intr.v. a·wak·ened, a·wak·en·ing, a·wak·ens To awake; waken. See Usage Note at wake1. [Middle English awakenen, from Old English by gunshots. The daughter, who was staying at her mother's house in the Bethel Bethel, in the Bible Bethel (bĕth`əl) [Heb.,=house of God]. 1 Ancient city of central Palestine, the modern Baytin, the West Bank, N of Jerusalem. neighborhood, said she had heard the couple arguing earlier in the morning before falling asleep. When officers arrived, they found Jill Dierkes in her bedroom. She had been shot several times with a .22-caliber weapon and was pronounced dead at the scene, Olshanski said. Police then went to the home of her husband, who lived at 4175 Wagner St., No. L456. They attempted to contact him but got no reply. Officers cordoned off the building and warned nearby residents to stay inside. SWAT members were called in. Shortly before 10 a.m., police used a robot to enter the apartment and found the 53-year-old Dierkes dead of a gunshot wound. "He appears to have used the same weapon to kill himself with," Olshanski said. The couple had been estranged for several months, a police report said. Jill Dierkes recently had served her husband with divorce papers and told her adult daughter and friends that Dierkes had been stalking Criminal activity consisting of the repeated following and harassing of another person. Stalking is a distinctive form of criminal activity composed of a series of actions that taken individually might constitute legal behavior. her in the past few days. Police had not been called to either address previously, according to police records. The couple have an 11-year-old daughter who was staying with friends that night. "We later found out it (Saturday) was the girl's birthday. She lost her mother and father on the same day," Olshanski said. |
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