What could have led a husband to kill his wife and then himself?
It's a question being asked tonight in one Montgomery County community following a shocking murder-suicide.
"She was a joy to know and a gift having her in my life, I'm just heartbroken from the circumstance," Peggy Davis said through tears.
Friends of 54 year old Margaret St John Durham are trying to come to grips with her sudden and violent death.
She would have not wanted to leave the world this way, would not have wanted to leave so many people that loved her in this kind of pain," Elizabeth Harelltisdall said.
But police say it was the man who supposedly loved her who took her life.
On Monday morning Margaret and her husband John Gonzalez's landlord found them inside their apartment on Ridge Pike in Lower Providence Township.
An autopsy report shows the two died from gunshot wounds to the head.
The report says Gonzalez's was self inflicted.
The D.A.'s office calls it a murder suicide but some friends say it was a suicide pact. Friends Peggy Davis and Elizabeth Harelltisdall never saw it coming.
"She was positive looking forward to spring and she was not anyone who sounded like she was in trouble," Elizabeth said.
The pair say Margaret loved to garden, was extremely well read and came from a onetime prominent family.
Her Grandfather was Walter K. Durham. He's perhaps Lower Merion Township's best known and most important architect.
Throughout the 1920's and leading into the Second World War his homes helped to develop Philadelphia's Main Line.
Back in Lower Providence the couple's landlord says the two were 3 months behind in their rent but neighbor Brain Hoey says John never let on there was any trouble.
"I didn't want people to think he was rotten or no good, he wasn't he was a fantastic person he really was," Hoey said.
The couple had no children and were married for over a decade.
"She was brilliant. John, I don't know, we may never know," Peggy said.
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