Missing hikers found dead of gunshot wounds may have died in ‘sympathetic’ murder suicide
Murder
“They had a choice of a slow and painful death or a quick death.”
“They had a choice of a slow and painful death or a quick death.”
Two Joshua Tree hikers found dead with their arms around each other both died of gunshot wounds, CNN reports. Though initial reports were interpreted to suggest that the couple died accidentally, authorities now believe the man killed the woman and himself in a murder-suicide. Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbes0, 22, of Orange County, California, …