Elderly Tuftonboro couple's suicide deaths caused by hypothermia: coroner

TUFTONBORO - The untimely deaths of an elderly Tuftonboro couple on Saturday appear to have been caused by environmental hypothermia, according to a coroner's finding.

Police got involved around 9:25 a.m. when they responded to a single-family summer residence located at 40 Governor Wentworth Hwy. in Tuftonboro after a neighbor said they had discovered two deceased adults outside and behind a camp.

The two deceased adults have been identified as David Warren, 79, and Rae Lynn Warren, 78, of Tuftonboro, who were owners of the property.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted autopsies on Monday and determined that the cause of deaths was environmental hypothermia, and the manner of both deaths was suicide.