UPDATE: Salt Lake City police released the names of the men as Andre Pappas, 70, and Theodore Beehakis, 67.
Salt Lake City Medical Examiner’s Office has determined that a 70-year-old man killed his 67-year-old domestic partner and then himself on Friday, Jan. 4.
Salt Lake City Police Department officers and fire personnel responded to the house at 1011 S. 400 East on a welfare check just after 10 a.m. Friday after a hospice worker was unable to reach them by phone. They were last seen alive on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Police say no note was left and that the department has never before been called to the home. They are not calling their deaths suspicious.
Neighbors said the couple has lived in the house for more than 20 years and that the men took care of each other.
The couple’s names have not been released as police seek to locate next-of-kin for both men.
Gay couple victims of murder-suicide – first Salt Lake homicide of 2013.
Gay couple victims of murder-suicide – first Salt Lake homicide of 2013.
Unfortunately, it seems pretty clear, the story behind this, judging simply by two words there. "Hospice worker". 🙁
Too sad!
OMG…….so sad…………..
Wow. The only older guy I know that lives in that area is single as far as I knew.
So sad!
Wasn't this your neighbor Ricky Joe Montoya????
I'm guessing that one partner was terminal and the other didn't want to live without him. Safe passage to both.
A little sad. I think they were both aware of what they were doing just out of virtue that a "hospice worker" was involved. Bravo to them for at least doing what they felt was the dignified way out.
I think your dates are wrong….you have dec and not January
I can't press the like button for this story. I wish FB had an alternative – like a sympathy button
This seems to happen more often then not over the years????
Although I am the younger (by 9 years) partner in a 16 year relationship, I really hope I go first. Either way, I will be creamated and placed inside the coffin of my partner (who will not be creamated due to his out of date belief in a religion). I'd really prefer to have out ashes mixed together so when the end of the earth arrives, the atoms that made up our cells could be near each other.