By Donna Beth Weilenman
Staff Reporter

Autopsies performed Wednesday on the two Benicia residents who died in an apparent murder-suicide confirmed that Walter Little, 48, and his girlfriend, Julie Strack, 49, both died of gunshot wounds, Solano County Deputy Sheriff Corey McLean said.

Little, of 69 Vista Grande, died of an intraoral gunshot wound while Strack, of the same address, died of two wounds, one to the head and one to the neck, McLean said.

Toxicology tests were run on Little, Lt. Mike Daley of the Benicia Police Department said, but those results aren’t expected for a few weeks.

The time and date of the couple’s deaths hasn’t been determined, although interviews with their acquaintances have led police to believe the incident may have happened Sunday or Monday night, Daley said. “We’re still trying to get that information,” he said.

Police discovered the bodies in the home at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday after a relative called, saying no one had heard from the couple in two days.

“When officers walked in, he (Little) was sitting on the couch in the living room, deceased,” Daley said. “She (Strack) was lying on the floor in the living room.”

Friends said the couple had dated several years prior to moving to the home two years ago, but that Strack had decided to end the relationship and move away.

Daley said police didn’t see any packed suitcases or boxes, but said when police looked in a small storage building in the back, it appeared that Strack may have stored her belongings there in anticipation of her move.

Otherwise, nothing in the house appeared disturbed, and police saw no evidence of a fight, Daley said.

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