COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) – Three people were found slain in a home, and an Amber Alert was issued Tuesday for two children who live there, authorities said.
The dead were a woman believed to be the missing children’s mother, a teenager believed to be their older brother and an unidentified adult male, sheriffs Capt. Ben Wolfinger said.
Authorities have no idea who took the boy and girl, he said. The missing children, Shasta Groene, 8, and her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, live at the house with their mother, the sheriffs office said.
Authorities were called about Monday evening by a neighbor who reported “suspicious circumstances” at the house on a bay of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Wolfinger said.
The bodies bore obvious signs of injury, but the cause of death remained undetermined, he said. “They’re treating it as an obvious homicide,” Wolfinger said.
The mother and father of the children are divorced, Wolfinger said. Investigators have talked with the father, and he is not considered a suspect or person of interest.
AP-ES-05-17-05 1725EDT
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