Mark Arledge, 52, was found dead in his Lodgepole, Nebraska home after a sequence that began when Cheyenne County deputies responded April 19, 2018 to a report of elder abuse at 819 Bondegaard Street. Deputies knocked, announced themselves, heard a woman say Just a minute, and then a gunshot. Inside they discovered Mark and his 51-year-old wife Michelle Lee Marlatt-Arledge.

Autopsies and the county attorneyï s office later established that Mark had actually been killed on April 16, 2018 by multiple gunshot wounds and that Michelle died of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities concluded the deaths were a murder-suicide with Michelle the shooter; no arrests were made. Local notices and obituaries confirmed Markï s death and arrangements.

Are there readers who knew the Arledges or have information about what happened in Lodgepole around mid-April 2018?