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Bill Drake

Case from Tucson, AZ dated Feb 08, 2018

Victim Details

Bill Drake

Male

Tucson

AZ

2018-02-08

85

Bill

Drake

Primary Suspect Deceased

06/18/2026

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Bill Drake, an 85-year-old male Tucson resident whose ethnicity was not specified in public reports, died on February 8, 2018, in what authorities described as an apparent murder-suicide at the midtown home he shared with his wife, 71-year-old Margaret Hoyt, in the 2700 block of East Copper Street near Alvernon Way.

That evening, Tucson police were sent to the residence on a welfare check after the property owner, who rented the home to the couple, received a letter from one of them inst ...
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