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106-year-old, caretaker die in pact
Associated Press
Published January 11, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - A 106-year-old widow and her much younger caretaker died together in a possible suicide pact at the home they shared, police said.
The bodies of Helen Godet and her friend and caretaker of nine years, David Lund, were found Friday along with notes indicating that Lund strangled the woman after she decided she could not take her own life, Inspector Dennis Maffei said Tuesday.
Lund, who was in his early 30s, then swallowed a fatal dose of antifreeze, authorities said. The notes were dated Dec. 27.
"There are indications that it was going to be a double suicide, but she couldn't force herself to drink the poison, so he killed her and then drank the poison," Maffei said.
Both notes were in Lund's handwriting, Maffei said. Godet appears to have signed one note.
Police are investigating the case as a possible murder-suicide, he said. A motive was not immediately known.
Detectives said Godet's husband died in 1970 and she never had children.
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