{"id":91123,"date":"2025-07-25T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91123\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:23:11","slug":"investigation-launched-after-death-of-elderly-couple-in-dandenong-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91123\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched after death of elderly couple in Dandenong North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are investigating the death of an elderly couple at a home in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A woman was found dead inside a property on Kaye Court, Dandenong North, about 1:30pm on Friday after authorities were called in by the couple&#8217;s relatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man was found injured in the driveway and was given medical treatment, but died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Inspector Rodney Maroney from Victoria Police said they suspected the deaths to be a case of murder&#8211;suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve lived here for a long time &#8230; and there&#8217;s been no indication of any issues whatsoever between them in the past,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"EmphasisedText_quote__TE6kn\"><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite a sad situation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Inspector Maroney said neither of the two had a history of any activities known to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A formal cause of death is yet to be determined, with an investigation ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of an elderly couple at a home in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east. A woman was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,60555,42127,5022,2089,9620,50,7207,1197,11459],"class_list":{"0":"post-91123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dandenong-north","10":"tag-dead","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-man","13":"tag-murder","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-suicide","17":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114913385103153810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}