Palm Beach county sheriff says Sondra Wiener, 87, and 90-year-old husband Marvin Wiener found dead on Thursday
Highlights
- Sondra Wiener, 87, and her 90-year-old husband Marvin Wiener were found unresponsive with gunshot wounds on Thursday afternoon.
- Palm Beach county sheriff’s office says it appears to be a murder-suicide.
- Madoff was known for orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme that wiped out people’s fortunes and ruined charities.
- After pleading guilty in 2009 to fraud and other charges, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
- He died last year, at 82 and while incarcerated, while incarcerated.
- The couple’s son David Wiener asked for privacy ‘at this time of grief’ at this time.