The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a possible murder-suicide just east of Mountain Home. According to Sheriff John Montgomery, 54-year-old Kenneth Farley and his wife, 57-year-old Jane Farley, were found dead early Saturday morning with gunshot wounds at their residence at 71 Kierra Place.
Baxter County 911 received a call after midnight from a man identifying himself as the couple’s son who had arrived at the residence and found his parents deceased. Baxter County deputies and Mountain Home Police officers arrived at the scene and found the caller in the front yard still on the phone with 911. Deputy Jamie Binnion and Officer Henry Campfield entered the home and located a male, later identified as Kenneth Farley, lying on his back on the bedroom floor just outside the master bedroom, and a Ruger 9mm pistol was located next to his body. The body of Jane Farley was then found face down on the bathroom floor.
Investigators with the sheriff’s office and the Arkansas State Police and members of the Baxter County Coroner’s Office examined the scene and conducted interviews throughout the early moring hours. Sheriff Montgomery says evidence at the scene leads investigators to currently believe Kenneth Farley shot Jane Farley once in the lower back and once in the left chest area and then shot himself once in the throat.
The bodies will be sent to the Arkansas State Medical Examiner’s Office in Little Rock to confirm the cause and manner of their deaths. Sheriff Montgomery says the investigation continues, but no further information will be released pending the results of the autopsies.
Other agencies assisting with the investigation include Baxter Regional paramedics and the Mountain Home Fire Department.
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