Elderly Man Kills Wife After Dog Defecates In Home

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Michael Stephen Stolz, 76, was charged with murder early this morning in the slaying of Bernice Stolz, 49. He is being held in the Denton County Jail with bail set at $250,000.

Stolz was arrested late Tuesday after holing up in his house for hours while police and SWAT officers encouraged him to surrender, eventually sending a robot equipped with a camera inside.

Officers forced their way into the home and found the suspect unarmed, lying on the floor. They also found both dogs dead and Bernice Stolz dead on the kitchen floor with a gunshot wound to the head.

Stolz surrendered peacefully but asked repeatedly "what the problem was," according to police documents.

He later told officers that he would have shot himself but had run out of bullets after killing his wife and their dogs, the documents say.

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/arch...rrested-a.html

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, 76-year-old Michael Stolz told police he became upset with his Shepherd dog for "sh**ing in the house."

His 49-year-old wife, Bernice, began complaining about the animal, the warrant says. Stolz told police he became frustrated and retrieved a .38-caliber pistol from the bedroom, then shot the Shepherd twice in the head, according to the document.

The arrest warrant says Bernice Stolz began screaming and ran into the kitchen, and Stolz shot the other dog, a Rottweiler, at least twice.

Stolz told police he started shooting his wife, according to the document. "Michael state that he ran out of bullets and did not plan this out as he did not have any bullets left in order to shoot himself," the affidavit says.

Police discovered the murder Tuesday because Bernice's boss asked them to check on her. She hadn't shown up for her job at Verizon for two days.

Officers visited the Stolz home in the 1600 block of Chisholm Trail in the afternoon and saw a dead dog through the window.

According to the affidavit, officers knew from past calls that an elderly person with diabetic issues lived at the home. Police opened the door and could smell something decomposing -- something stronger than the dog, the court document says.

Stolz, who was in another part of the house, yelled at police to stay where they were and he would be "out in a minute." But he never appeared, and officers eventually called for backup.

A SWAT team tried for hours to negotiate with Stolz, not sure if he was still armed. Eventually, police sent in a robot equipped with a camera. Once officers discovered Stolz had no weapon, police forced their way in and arrested him.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/Aff...n-House-032812

[CbabyRKO]

Yeah I heard about this on KRLD the other morning and the whole time I was like jeebus! This is some crazy shit to go down in Denton being that it is a college town. Don't get me wrong murder happens there obviously but something like this is truly outside the normal realm of anything I am sure the Denton police ever have had to deal with.
Now Dallas on the other hand? This would be just another day for the Dallas PD. I doubt they'd even blink an eye at something like this.

[Bohring]

Dead dogs = no poop. No poop = no bitching wife.

Seems perfectly logical to me.

[Tundratot]

Well, frustrated old man, you're going to get free assisted living at prison as your prize.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Dead dogs = no poop. No poop = no bitching wife.

Seems perfectly logical to me.

The equation works except for the whole dead wife part.

You need to add: wife screaming about dead dogs + rest of your bullets = problem solved

[Morbid]

Lewisville, TX – A 76-year-old man, Michael Stolz, has admitted to shooting and killing his wife, Bernice, 49, and their two dogs over an argument regarding floor-borne fecal matter.* And here’s the kicker:* it didn’t happen in Florida. Mr. Stolz, who was reportedly scheduled for a mental evaluation already, claims he was frustrated with his dog’s habit of laying down deuces in the house.* Now, anyone with a brain knows that you’re not supposed to complain to a guy who has just come to realization that he’s got a carpet bomb to clean up, especially he’s been unhinging right in front of you for some time.* Bernice did it anyway, however.* I only wish I’d been there to counsel her. Michael then allegedly did what any mentally unstable person with a loaded gun might do.* He went into the bedroom and got it.* He then proceeded to unload the gun through the barrel and into the offending dog’s skull, killing it.* Not satisfied, he fired at least a couple of bullets into the other, soon-to-be dead, dog. * That’s when Bernice apparently ran, screaming, into the kitchen. Stolz then turned the gun on her, lethally shooting her in the abdomen.* He admitted to not planning the murders out very well because, if he had, he claims he would have left a bullet for himself.* I guess he just wasn’t thinking straight at the time. This whole sordid story was revealed on March 27th when police performed a welfare check on Bernice after she hadn’t shown up for work in a few days and co-workers became concerned.* When officers arrived at the house and no one answered knocks on the doors or windows, they entered the house through a sliding back door and began announcing their presence.* It was then that they discovered dead dog #1 and reportedly heard the only living Stolz in the house call out that he would be “out there” in a minute.* Police say he also urged them not to come back to where he was.* They obliged, perhaps because it was at that point that they began to detect the unmistakable odor of decomposing flesh. When Stolz didn’t come out, the SWAT team was called in.* In the house, they reportedly found our man lying on the bedroom floor, two dead dogs, a deceased wife, and the gun that made it all possible.* Michael StolzKeep Reading...
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