Police find 3 decomposing bodies inside NJ home*

Saturday, May 17, 2008

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI, Associated Press Writer

TRENTON, N.J. — Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab
wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.

The bodies of an elderly man, an elderly woman _ who were not related _
and a younger man with defensive wounds had been dead for several days
in the Tenafly home, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.

The slayings were "definitely not a murder-suicide," and it was not
clear who may have killed them, he said.

Authorities said the house had not been ransacked and there were no
signs of burglary.

The victims' names were not released pending notification of family members.

Molinelli said the elderly man's daughter asked her husband to check on
the residents because she had not heard from them for some time. The man
went to the home, walked in through the unlocked back door, saw one body
and called Tenafly police. Police found all three victims upstairs.

They set up two tents and a generator in front of the three-story home,
which has an attached garage. Sheriff's officers and the county medical
examiner were at the scene, along with local police and detectives from
the prosecutor's office.

Neighbors said a Korean family had moved into the home within the past year.

Tenafly is a community of about 14,000 located about 10 miles north of
midtown Manhattan.

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Associated Press writer Daniela Flores contributed to this report.