Police Probe Phone Records In Death
EVERETT - Police were examining records of phone calls made by the boyfriend of a woman found dead in her home shortly before and after her death.
A search warrant filed yesterday by the Snohomish County sheriff's office in Everett District Court sought telephone records of the victim, Renee Duskin, her boyfriend and a woman police thought was having an affair with Duskin's boyfriend.
Duskin's body was found in her home on Tulalip Shores Road shortly before 6 p.m. July 4. She had suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
Authorities had not determined whether Duskin shot herself or was killed, sheriff's spokesman Elliott Woodall said yesterday.
According to the affidavit, the neighbor who found Duskin's body went to the house Duskin shared with her boyfriend minutes before the discovery and found an open door, but no one answered when she knocked. Upon returning to her house, the neighbor saw Duskin's boyfriend standing in the kitchen of Duskin's house, the affidavit states. As soon as the boyfriend left, the neighbor returned to Duskin's house and discovered the body.
Duskin's boyfriend left a message on an acquaintance's answering machine the evening of July 4 asking someone to check on Duskin later, the affidavit states.
A former colleague of the boyfriend said the two had talked about ways to kill somebody and make the death look like a suicide, according to the affidavit.