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Monday, September 01, 2008

A deadly English mystery

Third body found at millionaire's mansion

Fire broke out at Osbaston House in Shropshire on Tuesday with such force that it wasn't until Friday that investigators found the wife shot to death, the husband's .22 nearby. The body of a man has also been found, and a third body, but they have not be indentified. Formally the husband and the couple's 15-year-old daughter are considered missing, but it is possible that the bodies belong to them. Prior to the arson, all the horses and dogs were shot. Murder-suicide is my intuition, mainly because of the animals, but of course they have to rule out some sort of home invasion or that sort of thing as well; the family were well-off and someone could have attacked them for money or some other motive. They'll know more once those other bodies have been identified.

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