Saanich police remained tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the death this week of a noted former Prince George couple in their beachfront home near Victoria.
Sgt. Dean Jantzen refused to comment on reports the deaths of Erich and Kathy Mueller were a murder-suicide, although he did say no one has been arrested, police are not looking for a suspect and the public doesn't need to be worried for its safety.
Jantzen would not say if a weapon has been recovered.
He also would not confirm whether their son-in-law, Martin Hoffman, discovered the bodies and made the 911 call to police as was reported in the Times-Colonist, but he did say the caller knew the victims.
On Wednesday afternoon, the B.C. Coroners Service removed the Muellers' bodies from the home to conduct an autopsy.
Both noted supporters of the New Democratic Party, in 1986 they moved from Terrace to Prince George where Kathy, 67, was a trustee on the Prince George school board from 1990 to 1996 and Erich, 73, was an engineer at the City of Prince George.
Kathy was also part of the first intake into the masters of education program at UNBC in September 1994 and graduated in 1999 with a focus on counselling after completing her masters project. She also founded the Immigrant Society of Northern B.C.
After moving to Vancouver Island, Kathy taught adults in the remote First Nations community of Gingolx (also known as Kincolith) north of Prince Rupert from October 2009 until April 2010.
The couple worked together in the classroom, Neal Barton, former educational administrator at Gingolx, told the Victoria Times-Colonist.
At the time of her death, Kathy Mueller was serving as the B.C. director for the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).
The couple had six grandchildren and three children: Tien, 38, who lives in Prince George, Kirsten, 41, who lives in Abbotsford and Heidi Hoffman, 40, who lives on Cadboro Bay Road.
