Michael Buckley, a 62-year-old male, was recorded as having been lost to gun violence on February 5, 2014, in Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania, though the full tragedy was not uncovered until weeks later. State police went to the home after a family member asked for a welfare check, and inside they found Michael and his wife, Diana Buckley, dead. The home had sat quietly through winter storms, giving neighbors little reason to suspect what had happened behind its doors.
According to Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen, the scene appeared to be a homicide-suicide. Authorities believed Diana Buckley, who was 60, shot Michael and then shot herself. The coroner said the couple may have been dead for several weeks before they were found, and he noted that letters in the mailbox were postmarked February 5, though he could not immediately say exactly when the deaths occurred. A note left behind referred to the couple’s medical problems and said they were now “in a better place.”
The discovery stunned people on the quiet street. One neighbor described the Buckleys as nice people who kept mostly to themselves and said there had never been problems with them. The delay in discovery was especially unsettling because, from the outside, life at the house had not looked obviously disturbed; neighbors said someone had even plowed the driveway after snowstorms, masking the fact that the couple inside may already have been dead.
No online source I found reported an arrest, trial, conviction, or sentence in Michael Buckley’s death. The available reporting identified Diana Buckley as the suspected shooter, but because authorities described the case as an apparent homicide-suicide and she was found dead at the scene, there was no living suspect to prosecute and no sentencing or punishment reported.
