On Friday, May 15, deputies were dispatched to Karen and Donald Whitaker’s home to perform a welfare check and found the couple dead in a suspected murder-suicide
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- Karen Whitaker and Donald Whitaker, ages 79 and 80, were found in their home with traumatic injuries, during a welfare check on May 15,and were pronounced dead at the scene, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said
- A close friend of the couple says Karen had been defrauded by a scammer or scammers claiming to be actor Tom Selleck
- The sheriff’s office says evidence suggests their deaths were the result of a murder-suicide
An elderly woman who, along with her husband, was found dead inside their Calif. home a week ago in a suspected murder-suicide, had been defrauded by a scammer or scammers claiming to be actor Tom Selleck, a longtime friend of the couple tells PEOPLE.
On Friday, May 15, just before 12 p.m., deputies from the Thermal Sheriff’s Station were dispatched to a home on Montego Bay Drive in Bermuda Dunes to perform a welfare check, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Inside the home, deputies found Karen Whitaker and Donald Whitaker, who were 79 and 80, with traumatic injuries. The husband and wife were pronounced dead at the scene.
A day before their deaths, their friend Joy Miedecke, 81, who has known the couple for many years, says Karen asked some of her friends for money, claiming Selleck’s manager’s wife had died, and that the manager didn’t have any money…