Real Estate Agent Discovers 2 Bodies

Fri., Aug. 30, 1996

From Staff And Wire Reports

A real estate agent showing a house to potential buyers Thursday found two bodies in an upstairs room, authorities said.

Police have not identified the dead man and woman but believe they were the owners of the house, said Jerrell Wills, King County police spokesman.

They were in their late 30s to 40s, Wills said, and may have been dead for a day or two.

He said there were no overt signs of trauma.

On Sept. 29 last year, a Woodinville woman shot her husband in the head in the same house, Wills confirmed.

Bernice Jones, 57, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison in May for killing her husband of 35 years on the day he told her he was leaving her for another woman.

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