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Deputies Investigating Local Murder-Suicide

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published February 28, 2018 at 5:21 AM EST

Franklin County Sheriff's deputies say a husband and wife were found dead Tuesday at a home on the southwest side. Deputies are treating the shooting deaths of 56-year-old John Gebhardt and 51-year-old Paula Ratcliff-Gebhardt as a murder-suicide. Their bodies were found at a home on Little Avenue. Deputies believe the two were involved in a domestic dispute, and the man shot his wife before taking his own life.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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