Authorities: Suspect in NC family killing is dead

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, December 1, 2009

CONOVER (AP) ó Authorities say a man who was a suspect in a quadruple homicide in North Carolina has killed himself after a police chase in Utah.
Deputy Sheriff Coy Reid of the Catawba County Sheriffís Department said Wednesday the suspect killed himself after the chase in Washington County, Utah. The manís girlfriend also was killed.
The suspect wasnít immediately identified.
The suspect was wanted in last weekís killings of Lisa Saephan and her three children ó 20-year-old Melanie, 18-year-old Pauline and 4-year-old Cody ó at their home outside of Conover.