Strasburg Couple - The bodies of an elderly Tuscarawas County couple, who were abducted from their home over the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, have been found charred inside their burnt 1986 Pontiac Parisienne.
88-year-old Doyle Chumney and his 79-year-old wife Lillian Chumney were reported missing after their daughter went to their Bodmer Avenue home and found the door opened and the house plundered. Their car was also missing.
The Chumneys last spoke to family members on Tuesday around 11 p.m. and were scheduled to drive their son in Massillon to the airport on Wednesday morning - but they never came.
On Thursday, the Coshocton County Sheriff's Office positively identified the bodies of the Chumneys inside their burnt 1986 Pontiac Parisienne near Bakersville, just 40 miles south and southeast of Strasburg. The bodies were found in the front passenger compartment
Preliminary investigations indicate that the Strasburg couple were not driving alone on the night of their disappearance.
On Friday, Chief Deputy Orvis Campbell said it appears that the car was burned with an accelerant.
The Ohio Attorney General's office has since announced that the deaths of the Strasburg couple will be investigated as a double homicide by a multi-jurisdictional task force.
The task force will include the Strasburg Police Department, the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Sheriff's and prosecutor's offices of Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties. The Coshocton County Coroner's Office will also be involved in the investigation.
Authorities are yet to conduct autopsies and DNA tests in order to determine the exact cause of death of Doyle and Lillian Chumney.
