Murder- Suicide doctor.. nurse die hours after their wedding

Doctor kills wife, himself
on their wedding night
It was supposed to be the couple’s happiest
day: Kelly Ecker, a nurse, and Dr. George
Scott Samson married Saturday afternoon in
Terre Haute, Ind.
By their wedding night, both were dead.
Samson, an anesthesiologist at Union Hospital
in Terre Haute, shot his bride and then himself
in their home just hours after they exchanged
vows, authorities said.
Some wedding guests noticed tension between
the couple almost immediately after each said
“I do,” said Vigo County Sheriff Chief Deputy
Clark Cottom.
“Some guests are telling us the bride and
groom didn’t speak to each other at the
reception,” he said.
After the reception, the couple hosted
members of the bridal party at their home on
outside Terre Haute, Cottom said.
Not long after the last guest left, the county
dispatch center received a 911 call, according
to a transcript and tape provided by
authorities.
The 911 calls
The first call was made at 1:25 a.m.
The caller, said to be Kelly, is only able to
give an address, then the call cuts off.
In a second call made a minute later, the
caller says, “he is beating the s*** out of me”
and then says “he has guns” and identifies
Scott Samson by name.
By the third call, at 1:27 a.m., Cottom said it’s
clear the situation has escalated because the
caller’s voice is in more distress. She says
“oh my God!” and then gunshots are heard.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they were
met at the door by an elderly male relative of
Samson’s, authorities said.
“He directed the deputies to the bedroom
where they found Kelly’s body,” said Cottom.
She had been shot multiple times, he said.
Robot finds Samson
In addition to the male, two other individuals
were found in home: Ecker’s 10-year old-son
was in the bedroom where his mother’s body
was found, and he was unharmed, Cottom
said.
An elderly female relative was in the home at
the time of the shootings, and she also was
unharmed, authorities said.
Samson was still inside when deputies
arrived, so they made it a priority to get those
three individuals out of the home and to safety
immediately, Cottom said.
The elderly male witness told police that
Samson had run from the bedroom to another
part of the house to get more ammunition, and
then ran to the basement, authorities said.
Deputies surrounded the home immediately.
“The house is near a wooded area and a
cornfield and we didn’t want an armed man
running deep into the woods,” Cottom said.
A special response team used a robotic device
equipped with a camera to gain entry into the
home, he said.
When the robot located Samson in the
basement, it was apparent what had
happened.
“Samson was unresponsive. We saw a bullet
wound,” Cottom said.
Samson’s body was found near his gun safe
where he had earlier removed other weapons,
said Cottom. Samson was a gun enthusiast
who had a federal firearms license, Cottom
said.
This week, deputies were still taking inventory
of the weapons inside the home. Cottom said
several dozen of them had been removed. Culled from CNN