OCEANSIDE

An Oceanside couple died early Sunday in what homicide detectives believe was a murder-suicide.

Marlene A. Wolff, 55, and Frank Wolff, 58, were found dead at their San Luis Rey Valley home at 11:30 a.m. by their son, Craig Wolff, who said he became worried when his parents did not answer their phone.

Police Sgt. Bill Krunglevich said officers arrived at the scene to find that Mrs. Wolff had been shot in the head with a .22-caliber rifle while she lay in bed. Mr. Wolff was found in another bedroom, dead of a self-inflicted rifle wound, Krunglevich said. Both had been dead about 10 hours.

The couple’s son told detectives that his father, a retiree who was a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force for 34 years, had a long history of depression and was under a doctor’s care for the condition. Mrs. Wolff was a retired real estate agent.

The couple had moved from San Clemente to the 5100 block of Mandarin Drive less than a week earlier, according to their son, who lives in Laguna Beach.