"Deaths of Athol couple may be murder, suicide, officials say; They had children and were going through a divorce" by David Abel and Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | September 14, 2010
As authorities investigated the deaths of a couple from Athol yesterday, neighbors and relatives said there had been tension for some time between Eric and Joanne Johnson, whose bodies were found in separate places during the weekend.
“Her death is being treated as suspicious,’’ Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel said in a phone interview, adding that it appeared his death was a suicide.
“We really don’t know what we have,’’ Scheibel said.
She said there was no suicide note, and no stab or gunshot wound....
A fisherman discovered his body in the Connecticut River near the French King Bridge, which is on Route 2 at the border of Gill and Erving, in Western Massachusetts....
Just east of me, dear readers. It was big news out here.
A neighbor, Marion Griffith, said the Johnsons were going through a “very bitter divorce.’’
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