IL Couple David And Anna Martin ID’d As Victims In Sunday Arlington Heights Double-Murder

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL. (THECOUNT) — David Martin, and his wife Anne Martin, have been identified as the Arlington Heights couple found dead inside their South Derbyshire Lane home early Sunday.

Arlington Heights police say they discovered David Martin, 72, and his wife, Anne Martin, 71, dead of stab wounds and multiple sharp force injuries.

Authorities say police officers discovered the Martins at their home in the 0-100 block of South Derbyshire Lane shortly after 12:32 a.m. Saturday, when responding to a 911 call during which the telephone line was left open but “no discernible conversation” was detected.

Both deaths were ruled homicides. A person of interest in custody, say officials.

While person of interest remained in custody Sunday, no charges had been filed as of Sunday afternoon. Police have not disclosed that person’s relationship to the victims.

Anne Martin was a former teacher at Wheeling High School, said Teri Levey, division assistant in the school’s Social Science/World Language/English Learner Division. She said she and other onetime colleagues are stunned by the news, according to dailyherald.

Levey said the Martins had two adopted children, three step grandchildren and a grandchild.

David Martin, she said, was also retired and a Florida native who, according to neighbors, was a Vietnam veteran.

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Geo quick facts: Arlington Heights is a village in Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles northwest of the city’s downtown. The population was 75,101 at the 2010 census – Wikipedia.