Maine State Police are investigating the deaths of an elderly couple found in a home just outside Presque Isle. Police say 81-year-old Marcus Sykora and his wife, 77-year-old Sheila Sykora, recently moved from Missouri to the town of Chapman to stay with their daughter.

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Members of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department and the Maine Warden Service were the first to respond after a 9-1-1 call late Thursday morning. They found Mr. Sykora dead in the basement and his wife seriously injured.  Mrs. Sykora was rushed by ambulance to the Aroostook Medical Center in Presque Isle where she died a short time later.

Investigators remained at the home on the Chapman Road last evening. Detectives don’t suspect anyone outside of the home was involved in the deaths. The state medical examiner’s office is conducting autopsies.

 

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