Sheriff Officials in Waupaca County said a local supper club helped them solve a rare crime in the Town of Royalton, Tuesda morning.
Waupaca County Sheriff Brad Hardel said 51-year-old John Cummings of Weyauwega shot his wife, 32-year-old Cori Cummings of Manawa, multiple time, before turning the gun on himself, inside the moving the vehicle that they were both in.
The report came in from a caller who said the vehicle went off the road, struck and tree, and was still running with the tires spinnng.
The accident occured on North Shore Road at State Highway 110.
Waupaca County Sheriff Brad Hardel says if it wasn’t for surveillance footage from a supper club’s security camera, they may have still be asking questions about a husband-wife murder-suicide in Waupaca County Tuesday morning.
“The surveillance showed that he pulled into the parking lot. He got out of his vehicle and got into her vehicle on the passenger side.”
Sheriff Hardel said it was then that the vehicle took over for just a bit from the parking lot, before crashing into the tree.
“Without that, we would have at some point found his vehicle there, that is for sure. We went in and asked if they had any video, and they did just of the one portion, but happened to be where they were parked at least, so that helped us a lot.”
Hardel said the crime scene left too many questions and the pieces of the puzzle did not add up to a typical one vehicle crash.
Hardel added that upon arriving on scene, they found two deceased, but did not notice the gun shot wounds right away, or an empty gun holster in the husbands vehicle.
