EDMOND -- A concerned friend led police to the apparent murder-suicide of a doctor and his wife in east Edmond on Monday.
Edmond police are investigating the deaths of Oklahoma City podiatrist Dr. Robert Douglas Sowell, 55, and his wife Linda, 54, at their home, 16 N Filly Lane.
Police think Robert Sowell used a .32-caliber revolver to kill his wife before turning the gun on himself, Edmond police spokeswoman Glynda Chu said. Tests done on the pair show they died Sunday, she said.
Police were called to the home early Monday by a friend of Linda Sowell who feeds their horses, Chu said. The friend whom police declined to identify said he became worried about Sowell when he saw her car had been left in the driveway overnight, which was never done, and wanted police to make a welfare check, she said.
When police arrived about 8:45 a.m., the friend let them into the house. In the kitchen were the Sowells, both dead of gunshot wounds, Chu said.
Police have not found a motive for the killings, she said.
"We may never know why this happened," Chu said.
The Sowells were married more than 30 years and have a 25-year-old daughter, Jennifer Sowell, who was notified of her parents' death in Portland, Ore., she said.
Robert Sowell graduated from John Marshall High School in 1967 and attended both the University of Oklahoma and the University of Central Oklahoma, then Central State University, before going to the Illinois College of Podiatric Medicine. He got his license to practice podiatry in the state in 1978, according to the Oklahoma State Medical Board documents.
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