PUYALLUP, Wash. (TCN) — Officials are releasing new information about the deaths of four people whose bodies were found during a welfare check on New Year’s Eve.
According to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, on the morning of Dec. 31, deputies went to a home on Eastwood Avenue East after concerned individuals requested a well-being check on several family members who had not been heard from or seen in “a while.” They went inside the residence and located an adult male and adult female deceased inside. Detectives and forensics investigators responded to the scene and discovered two more victims.
On Jan. 3, the Pierce County Medical Examiner released the identities and causes of death of the four individuals. William Vosler, 68, died from a stab wound to the chest and blunt force trauma, while his wife, 66-year-old Eileen Vosler, suffered from multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck. Their deaths were ruled homicides. Their son, 33-year-old Shane Vosler, sustained a contact gunshot wound to the head. The medical examiner determined he died by suicide. Sue Bin Lee, 34, also died from a gunshot wound to the head, but her manner of death is still undetermined.
KOMO-TV reports Shane Vosler and Lee, his girlfriend, were found dead inside the home, while William Vosler and Eileen Vosler were left in a garage freezer. A Pierce County search warrant said neighbors became worried about the family because they had not seen any of them since July. William Vosler reportedly regularly worked on cars in his driveway, so those nearby found it strange when he was nowhere to be found for several months.
While looking through the home, detectives reportedly discovered a note on the fridge that said, “Time of death July 24, 5:45 a.m.” and another that read, “Time of death July 24, 3 p.m.”
The sheriff’s office received four different welfare check requests for William Vosler and Eileen Vosler. Deputies went to the home on Dec. 23 after one of William Vosler’s cars was being towed away. Because deputies did not see any forced entry into the home, they left. They went back two more times in the following days but could not enter the residence because they did not obtain enough proof to do so. The married couple’s two other sons forced their way into the home on Dec. 31 by removing an air conditioning unit on the second floor, and when they made it in, they reportedly saw Lee deceased on the floor.
Deputies made entry and “smelled a distinct odor of body decomposition.”
The investigation into their deaths remains ongoing.
