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Karen Franklin

Case from Owings Mills, MD dated Apr 01, 2025

Victim Details

Karen Halle Franklin

Female

White / Caucasian

Owings Mills

MD

2025-04-01

59

Karen

Franklin

07/07/2026

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In the quiet Worthington Park neighborhood of Owings Mills, Maryland, a tragedy unfolded that left the community in shock. On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 1, 2025, police responded to a call for an assault in progress at a home on Avery Hill Drive. Inside, they discovered the bodies of 59-year-old Karen Halle Franklin and her 63-year-old husband, Gary Scott Franklin. Both had sustained fatal gunshot wounds in what authorities would soon describe as a murder-suicide.

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  • Investigation Launched into Deaths of Husband and Wife | Baltimore County Government
  • WBFF: Baltimore County married couple found dead in suspected murder-suicide
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