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21st April 2011, 05:03 PM
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/120395104.html
A married couple in Mequon may have been killed over $5 in gas money, a criminal complaint released Thursday shows.
The couple's son, 20-year-old Dennis Markov, was charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide Thursday in the shooting deaths of his parents, Victor and Larissa Markov, 45 and 39.
According to the criminal complaint:
Dennis told police he had asked his father for $5 in gas money around 6 p.m. Sunday. When he refused, the two got into an argument.
Dennis, who lived with his parents in the house in the 3200 block of W. Fleur de Lis Drive, went to his upstairs bedroom and got a .22 rifle he'd bought the month before.
Then he went back downstairs and shot his dad in the back of the head. With the second shot, his father fell to the ground. Dennis went upstairs to get bath towels to keep the blood from spreading on the floor. As he was wrapping his father's head and cleaning up, he heard his dad gurgle, so he picked up the rifle and shot him once more, the complaint states. He dragged the body through the kitchen and into the garage and took $30 out of his dad's pocket.
Still according to the complaint:
As Dennis began cleaning blood from the floor, his mom, who had gone out to run errands, arrived home. It was around 8 p.m. When the garage door went up, the complaint states, he waited in the laundry room and shot her twice in the back of the head. He wrapped her head in towels as well and hid her body in the garage. He covered both bodies with a multicolored blanket.
He later took another $200 in cash out of his parents' room.
For the next two days, Larissa Markov did not show up for work. Her employer got worried and called the house Tuesday. Dennis answered the phone. He told the employer that his parents had gone on vacation, but the caller didn't believe him and called the police at 2:38 p.m. to check on her.
When officers arrived, Dennis told them that his parents had left for vacation in Missouri the day before. He soon contradicted himself and three officers began to search the house.
When an officer opened the garage door, he saw the blanket on the ground and what he believed was a human foot protruding from underneath it. In the garage next to the bodies, the officer also noticed a handsaw on a work bench, a miter saw on a stand and some plastic bags.
Officers took Markov to the police station where he gave a statement that he had "popped his father," the complaint states.
According to the complaint, "Detective (Chuck) O'Connell asked Dennis Markov if he was happy or sad that he had killed his parents and Dennis Markov stated that he had never felt better."
The complaint states Markov said he purchased a plane ticket online to return to the Ukraine and was expecting it to arrive Tuesday. He planned to call police in the United States and tell them where to find the bodies.
"When asked about the rifle, Markov stated that he had been shooting the gun inside of the house for practice," the complaint states. "When asked what his plan was for the gun, Dennis Markov admitted to buying the gun to possibly shoot his parents, stating, 'Who else would I shoot?' "
At a bond hearing Thursday, bail was set at $1 million with conditions that he not possess any weapons, not leave Wisconsin and surrender his passport. Markov was still in jail as of Thursday afternoon.
"The penalty here is a term of imprisonment up to someone's natural life," Ozaukee County District Attorney Adam Gerol said.
A status hearing is set for May 11 at 11 a.m.
Records show the Markovs had lived in the house in the upscale Mequon neighborhood of Ville du Parc since 2008. Dennis graduated from Homestead High School in 2009. In mid-April 2010, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid a fine of $263.50.
A married couple in Mequon may have been killed over $5 in gas money, a criminal complaint released Thursday shows.
The couple's son, 20-year-old Dennis Markov, was charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide Thursday in the shooting deaths of his parents, Victor and Larissa Markov, 45 and 39.
According to the criminal complaint:
Dennis told police he had asked his father for $5 in gas money around 6 p.m. Sunday. When he refused, the two got into an argument.
Dennis, who lived with his parents in the house in the 3200 block of W. Fleur de Lis Drive, went to his upstairs bedroom and got a .22 rifle he'd bought the month before.
Then he went back downstairs and shot his dad in the back of the head. With the second shot, his father fell to the ground. Dennis went upstairs to get bath towels to keep the blood from spreading on the floor. As he was wrapping his father's head and cleaning up, he heard his dad gurgle, so he picked up the rifle and shot him once more, the complaint states. He dragged the body through the kitchen and into the garage and took $30 out of his dad's pocket.
Still according to the complaint:
As Dennis began cleaning blood from the floor, his mom, who had gone out to run errands, arrived home. It was around 8 p.m. When the garage door went up, the complaint states, he waited in the laundry room and shot her twice in the back of the head. He wrapped her head in towels as well and hid her body in the garage. He covered both bodies with a multicolored blanket.
He later took another $200 in cash out of his parents' room.
For the next two days, Larissa Markov did not show up for work. Her employer got worried and called the house Tuesday. Dennis answered the phone. He told the employer that his parents had gone on vacation, but the caller didn't believe him and called the police at 2:38 p.m. to check on her.
When officers arrived, Dennis told them that his parents had left for vacation in Missouri the day before. He soon contradicted himself and three officers began to search the house.
When an officer opened the garage door, he saw the blanket on the ground and what he believed was a human foot protruding from underneath it. In the garage next to the bodies, the officer also noticed a handsaw on a work bench, a miter saw on a stand and some plastic bags.
Officers took Markov to the police station where he gave a statement that he had "popped his father," the complaint states.
According to the complaint, "Detective (Chuck) O'Connell asked Dennis Markov if he was happy or sad that he had killed his parents and Dennis Markov stated that he had never felt better."
The complaint states Markov said he purchased a plane ticket online to return to the Ukraine and was expecting it to arrive Tuesday. He planned to call police in the United States and tell them where to find the bodies.
"When asked about the rifle, Markov stated that he had been shooting the gun inside of the house for practice," the complaint states. "When asked what his plan was for the gun, Dennis Markov admitted to buying the gun to possibly shoot his parents, stating, 'Who else would I shoot?' "
At a bond hearing Thursday, bail was set at $1 million with conditions that he not possess any weapons, not leave Wisconsin and surrender his passport. Markov was still in jail as of Thursday afternoon.
"The penalty here is a term of imprisonment up to someone's natural life," Ozaukee County District Attorney Adam Gerol said.
A status hearing is set for May 11 at 11 a.m.
Records show the Markovs had lived in the house in the upscale Mequon neighborhood of Ville du Parc since 2008. Dennis graduated from Homestead High School in 2009. In mid-April 2010, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid a fine of $263.50.