Boynton Seaside, Florida — The sister of Wall Road fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband had been discovered lifeless in what investigators support was an obvious murder-suicide in Florida, based on information studies.
The Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s Workplace on Sunday recognized the couple as 87-year-old Sondra Wiener of Boynton Seaside and her 90-year-old husband, Marvin. They had been discovered unresponsive with gunshot wounds Thursday afternoon inside their residence.
“Detectives from the Violent Crimes Division arrived on scene to research additional. After additional investigation it seems to be a homicide/suicide,” the Sheriff’s Workplace assertion mentioned.
Officers mentioned the reason for dying shall be decided by the Medical Examiner’s Workplace.
It was unclear who pulled the set off, CBS Miami studies.
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A lady who recognized herself because the spouse of son David Wiener requested for privateness “right now of grief.”
Contacted by telephone, she mentioned: “We don’t make any remark right now.”
Madoff was infamously identified for orchestrating a large Ponzi scheme that worn out folks’s fortunes and ruined charities. He was sentenced to 150 years in jail after pleading responsible in 2009 to fraud and different costs and died whereas incarcerated at age 82 final yr.
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