Couple Found Dead In Apparent Murder Suicide At Haverhill Park
HAVERHILL (CBS) - Two people were killed in an apparent murder suicide at a park in Haverhill on Wednesday.
When investigators left the scene at Winnekenni Castle just before six o'clock Wednesday evening, they took with them the cars that earlier this afternoon were surrounded by crime tape. They are the same vehicles that were spotted by the groundskeeper's young son and one of his friends around one this afternoon.
Inside, were the dead bodies of a man and a woman. The victims are identified as 37-year-old Mr. Kristen Broderick of Houston, Texas, and 36-year-old Martha McDermott of Hampton, New Hampshire. The two were believed to be married.
WBZ-TV's Jim Armstrong reports
The larger park is a big draw for locals, even in the winter.
"Normally you have people walking around, you know, with their dogs and people take their horses up here," explains Haverhill's Wayne Laplante. "I come up and take bird pictures all the time. It's usually a nice place to come up to."
The cars where the bodies were found were two Volkswagens, one with license plates from Connecticut, the other from New Hampshire.
There was an infant's car seat in the back of one of the vehicles but investigators offered no details about whether or not a child was present at the time of the incident.
