Mystery surrounds the death of two adult sisters apparently shot dead in their Pittsburgh home’s basement.
The bodies of Susan Wolfe, 44, and Sarah Wolfe, 38 — whose other sister Mary Wolfe is an Iowa Democratic state representative — were discovered Friday afternoon.
Cops were called to search the property after the duo didn’t show up for work. Officers are now treating the case as a double homicide.
Lt. Daniel Herrmann said they currently didn’t have a motive for the killings — and revealed there were no signs of forced entry into the property.
Susan, a teacher at Hillel Academy in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, attended work as usual on Thursday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
When she didn’t show the following morning, however, center director Dori Oshlag became worried and called police.
Authorities made a wellness check just after 1 p.m. and found her body.
The corpse of her sister, Sarah, who worked at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, was alongside hers.
Both sisters were pronounced dead at 1:48 p.m.
Tributes have been paid to the pair.
Sarah’s boyfriend Matthew Buchholz, who is not a suspect in the case, took to Facebook to his partner.
“[She was a] beautiful, brilliant funny woman who worked as a children’s psychiatrist and was an old school riot ‘grrrl.’…This whole thing is unimaginably sad,” he wrote.
And Sarah’s former landlord Kelly Carter described her as a “dream tenant, model neighbor and friend.”
The sisters’ other sibling, Rep. Wolfe, thanked friends, colleagues and neighbors for their support.
“We are so grateful,” she wrote on Facebook, adding: “Heartbroken, but grateful.”
