Authorities ID Couple Found Dead In West Petaluma Home

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — The Sonoma County Sheriff-Coroner's Office identified two people found dead last week in a west Petaluma home as husband and wife Mark Allen Edington, 60, and Terri Lynee Edington, 56. The couple was positively identified using dental records, sheriff-coroner's officials said in a statement Tuesday.

Deputies discovered the couple's bodies May 8 inside a home in the 4700 block of Roblar Road in an unincorporated area west of Petaluma. Deputies went to the home to conduct a welfare check after a woman called the sheriff's office stating she had not seen her sister and husband in about a month and that the grass outside the home was overgrown and mail was piling up in their mailbox, sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Crum said at the time.

Detectives were called to the scene and determined their deaths were suspicious, Crum said.

Last week when Patch inquired about the deceased couple's identities, Crum said "decomposition of the bodies has made identification difficult."

The death remain under investigation by the Sonoma County Sheriff's Violent Crimes Unit.

"... There is nothing further to be released as to cause and manner of death at this time," sheriff-coroner's officials said Tuesday.

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Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

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