A quiet Connecticut neighborhood has been rocked by a horrific murder-suicide after a beloved millionaire let her son back into her home.
The bodies of Suzanne Adams, 83, and her 56-year-old son Stein-Erik Soelberg were discovered during a welfare check at her $2.7million Greenwich home on Tuesday, according to officials.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Adams was killed ‘by blunt injury of head, and the neck was compressed.’
Soelberg’s death was ruled a suicide, with the cause being sharp force injuries of neck and chest.
Adams’ neighbors told Greenwich Time that Soelberg had moved back into his mother’s house five years ago following a divorce.
They added that Adams was a beloved member of the wealthy community who was often seen riding her bike.
But Soelberg was described as odd, with locals saying he was regularly seen walking while muttering to himself.
Soelberg had several run-ins with police over the last years. The most recent was in February when he was arrested after he failed a sobriety test during a traffic stop.
In February, 2019, Soelberg was reported missing for several days, until he was found ‘in good health.’
The same year he was arrested for ramming his car into parked vehicles and urinating in a woman’s duffel bag.
According to his LinkedIn, Soelberg last held a job in 2021, when he worked as a marketing director in California.
In 2023, a GoFundMe was created asking for donations to cover Soelberg’s cancer treatment.
‘Our friend Stein-Erik needs our help with upcoming surgery for a procedure to help him with his recent jaw cancer diagnosis,’ said the the page, which collected $6,500 of the $25,000 goal.
‘This is a recent development, and his doctors are planning an aggressive timeline to try to get this under control.’
Soelberg left a comment on the page that read: ‘The good news is they have ruled out cancer with a high probability… The bad news is that they cannot seem to come up with a diagnosis and bone tumors continue to grow in my jawbone. They removed a half a golf ball yesterday. Sorry for the visual there.’
Soelberg posted several strange messages just days before the murder-suicide.
Last week he wrote a rambling post where he appeared to claim his mobile device had been tampered with.
He wrote, in part: ‘The sensors were obviously working not in my benefit. They were sensing me where I was or what I was doing the camera was turning on by itself, and one of the cameras was in laid strangely, and so when I turned off all of connectivity, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular, I was still getting a signal.
‘And now the phone has mysteriously gone missing taken from me while I was in a restaurant…’
Police have not revealed a motive for the murder suicide, which remains under investigation.