AQUA-HOT Tragedy

[Coloradobus]

This evening's TV news in Colorado told viewers the owners of Aqua-hot/Vehicle Systems Inc. of Ft Lupton Colorado, were found dead in their home today. No motive as of yet has been determined other than it was not self-inflicted.
Aqua-hot will be closed the rest of this week. Our hearts go out to this family.

[Coloradobus]

HUDSON, Colo. -- The Adams County Sheriff's Office is looking for the person or persons responsible for killing a man and a woman who were found dead at a home in a remote area southeast of Hudson.

The sheriff’s office were called at 9:30 a.m. Thursday on the report of a woman hurt. Deputies were told that a woman was laying on the bedroom floor and was covered in blood.

When deputies arrived at the home near East 144th Avenue and Imboden Road, they found a man and a woman dead. Foul play was immediately suspected and deputies launched a homicide investigation.

The sheriff''s office has not released the identities of the victims nor their relationship to each other.

However, the home was built last year for Harold and Sue Enander, according to neighbors. Harold or "Hap" Enander as he's known, is the owner of Aqua Hot, a Fort Lupton company created in 1989 to provide heating systems for high-end motor homes.

Neighbors told 7NEWS that they tried to call the couple at 9 p.m. Wednesday but they didn’t get a response. Another neighbor called Thursday morning and then eventually went to the house and spotted a woman's body in the house, the sheriff's office said.

A sheriff's spokeswoman would not confirm the identities of the victims. They are awaiting a search warrant to get into the home.

However, investigators said they do not suspect murder-suicide so that means that the person or persons responsible is still at large.

"I think the warning would go for anybody within any jurisdiction, within any type of community (and that) is lock your doors. Before you open your door, look and see who's there. Use due caution because you never know at this point," said Sgt. Candi Baker, spokeswoman for the Adams County Sheriff's Department. "At this time there's no known motive for this. We don't know of any feuds or any problems that they might have had with any neighbors."

A neighbor described the murders as baffling.

The area is very, very remote, with each house about a half-mile away from each other. The home is located on wide, flat, open space, miles and miles away from the freeway.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Adams County Sheriff's Office at (720)322-1313.

[dalej]

Thanks for keeping us updated.

[wrongagain]

I tried to check the rumour mill in colorado, but,...
I have a brother in law in colorado who is a sheriff.
And a sister who worked for the prison system.
They dont know anything other than the house was allegedly ransacked.

[wrongagain]

Just another article.
It mentions the condition of the house.


Members of the tight-knit community of Hudson gathered Thursday night to mourn two slain neighbors as authorities searched for clues as to who would commit such a crime.
The bodies of a man and a woman were found Thursday morning inside a rural home in the 42000 block of East 144th Avenue in unincorporated Adams County.
Authorities did not release the identities of the victims, but friends of the couple identified them as Harold "Hap" Enander, 69, and Sue Enander, 61.
No suspects had been named as of Thursday night. About 7 p.m., a search warrant was executed at the home. There was no indication that the deaths were a murder-suicide, authorities said.
"Foul play is suspected. It's being handled as a double homicide," said Adams County sheriff's spokeswoman Candi Baker.
At the First Baptist Church of Hudson on Thursday night, about 100 people gathered to grieve and pray.
"Everyone's trying to cope right now," said the Rev. Skip Higgins, who lives next to the Enanders. "They were very close to everybody in the congregation. It's a real tragedy."
Higgins' wife, Linda, was concerned that she had not heard from Sue Enander in a while, so she went to check on her about 9 a.m. Thursday. That's when she spotted Sue Enander on the floor, which was covered with blood, and called police.
Authorities did not say how the Enanders died, but the Rev. Higgins said his wife said they both had been shot.
The motive for the killings was unknown. Higgins said the house was "all tore up."
The Enanders owned Aqua Hot Heating Systems, a Fort Lupton company that makes heating systems for recreational vehicles and employs 65 people. Employees were informed of the deaths Thursday afternoon.
The couple were heavily involved in their church, working with the children of the congregation, said family friend Al Colby, whose daughter works for Aqua Hot. Harold Enander was the church treasurer, and both Enanders were involved with music there.
"The little kids in the church just loved the two people, and all the adults just loved Hap and Sue," Colby said.
Colby said the Enanders, who had been married for about three years, were wonderful people. They enjoyed children, fishing and boating and helping others, he said.
"I'd have to hunt like hell to find anyone who would have anything bad to say about him," Colby said. "Hap was the kind of guy who you could take something out of his hands and he would ask if you really needed it, then he would give it to you."
The area where the murders took place is rural, and neighbors are barely within eyesight. Still, people there are close. And answers were hard to come by Thursday night. "It's just an unbelievable shock," Colby said. "We could accept it had it been an accident. But this?"