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A 76-year-old man was shot dead in his bed and his body was not found until the following day when his blind wife contacted police, it is reported... Police went round to the home of the couple on Levee Road in Louisiana, US, on Wednesday around 6pm over a report of a missing person. Mr Lang’s wife, who is visually impaired, told police that she had not spoken to her husband since the afternoon of the previous day which was “unusual", read a sheriff office statement, it is reported. Officers noticed that no cars were missing from the driveway but...

MOAB (AP) — Every day for the past two weeks, Sean-Paul Schulte sits at the same picnic table at Swanny City Park in Moab. He brings cookies, flowers, pictures of his family, meticulously painted rocks, and two pairs of black boots from his daughter, Kylen Schulte, and her wife, Crystal Turner, who on Aug. 18 were found dead in the La Sal Mountains outside of town. He also brings a clue box. “There’s really only been two bogus ones,” he told the Deseret News, referring to the roughly 40 tips locals have brought him. “There was one point I was...