Comment on Deaths of rural Farmington area couple ruled murder-suicide

TEMPLE — The deaths of a Temple couple has been ruled a murder-suicide by the Medical Examiner’s Office, the Maine State Police said Wednesday. Autopsies on Thomas Masse, 60, and his wife, Michelle Masse, 59, showed both died from a single gunshot wound to the head. Investigators said Masse shot his wife and then shot himself, a statement from Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. Her body was found in the bathtub; his in a living room chair with a handgun by his side, McCausland said. Police said they were called to the home at 214 Temple Road after Thomas Masse called the Franklin County Regional Communications Center in Farmington at about 5:50 a.m.