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Kathryn Locker

Case from Austin, TX dated Sep 25, 2018

Victim Details

Kathryn Locker

Female

White / Caucasian

Austin

TX

2018-09-25

76

Kathryn

Locker

07/21/2026

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Kathryn Locker, a 76-year-old woman from Austin, Texas, was found dead on September 25, 2018, in what authorities have ruled as a murder-suicide. The Austin Police Department responded to a welfare call from the couple's daughter, who had not heard from her parents since Sunday. Upon arrival at their home on Palisade Court, officers discovered the bodies of Kathryn and her husband, Ernest Locker, both 76 years old, in their bed with gunshot wounds. The Travis County Medical Examiner's Office con ...
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  • KXAN: APD: Elderly couple found dead in west Austin murder-suicide
  • Kathryn Locker, age 76 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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