Crime & Safety
Police: Dumbbells, Knife Used To Kill Elderly Couple
Matthew Long, a Pikesville resident, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his grandparents, and is being held in an Oklahoma detention center.
Twenty-pound dumbbells and a knife were the weapons used to kill longtime Sudbrook Park residents Vaughn and Marjorie Pepper.
According to Baltimore County police, the dumbbells have been recovered, but the knife has not.
The Peppers died of blunt- and sharp-force trauma, according to a news release Wednesday.
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