{"id":342124,"date":"2026-06-19T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342124\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:49:08","slug":"police-identify-husband-and-wife-found-dead-in-se-austin-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342124\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify husband and wife found dead in SE Austin murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police have identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-off-east-oltorf-street-in-se-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">husband and wife found dead inside a Southeast Austin home<\/a> earlier this week and now say the case was a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department, officers responded around 3:21 p.m. Tuesday to a welfare check call in the 4700 block of East Oltorf Street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-homicide-off-east-oltorf-street-in-se-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| Police investigating deaths of husband and wife found inside SE Austin home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When officers entered the residence, they found two adults dead inside. Police later identified them as 57-year-old Barton Skubi and 52-year-old Kristin Standford.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said both appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at 8:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>APD homicide detectives and crime scene specialists responded to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation determined Standford shot and killed her husband, Skubi, before turning the gun on herself.<\/p>\n<p>When officers initially responded Tuesday, police said entry into the home was delayed because of an aggressive dog inside the residence.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated as Austin\u2019s 28th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact APD at 512-974-TIPS. Anonymous tips can also be submitted through <a href=\"https:\/\/austincrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Capital Area Crime Stoppers<\/a> at 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin police have identified the husband and wife found dead inside a Southeast Austin home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-342124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}