100 year old man commits murder suicide in New Jersey

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A 100-year-old Elmwood Park man whose family said he suffered from dementia killed his 88-year-old wife with an ax as she slept, before taking his own life with a knife, according to authorities, becoming one of the oldest people ever accused of homicide.

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Michael and Rosalia Juskin had a “history of domestic issues,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a tweet on Monday evening. He said authorities had yet to determine a motive for the murder-suicide, which he said had taken place sometime late Sunday. The bodies were found early Monday after a relative, who was not at the home at the time of the violence, called police, authorities said.

Molinelli said Michael Juskin committed suicide in a bathroom at the couple’s Spruce Street home after killing his wife. He did not provide further details.

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