Charles Edward Richard Yielding, 80, was found dead at his Hamilton, Alabama, home on September 19, 2022, in what authorities described as a murder-suicide. The deaths of Charles and his 43-year-old son Chris were reported in the early morning after Chris’s mother alerted emergency services. Investigators concluded Chris was responsible for his father’s death before taking his own life.

At the time, Chris Yielding was out on bond on an unrelated murder charge. He had been arrested in August 2020 in the death of his partner, Mandy Dozier, and was released from the Marion County Jail on a $506,000 bond on January 25, 2022. The community reacted to the compounded tragedy of a man accused of a prior violent crime and the subsequent fatal attack on his father.

If anyone knew Charles or the family and can help fill in details about their lives or what led up to that September morning, please share what is known.