BOULDER — Police officers had contacted Philip Frank DiLeo and his family 16 times before the 61-year-old former Aurora firefighter fatally shot his wife, his son and himself on Memorial Day at their Boulder home, according to documents made public Monday.
The reports involving DiLeo, 61; his wife, Elizabeth Schwarzenbach-DiLeo, 63; or their son, Philip Christopher “Chris” DiLeo, 23, corroborate stories from neighbors and friends that the family had contentious relations.
“Neighbors called in continual yelling,” a police officer reported in August 1998.
The DiLeos’ housekeeper waved down a police officer at about 11:30 a.m. May 26 after finding a body at the family’s home in the 2400 block of Bluff Street. When officers searched the house a few blocks north of Pearl Street, they found all three family members dead from gunshot wounds.
Schwarzenbach-DiLeo, who was shot twice in the chest and once in the back of the head, was found in a first-floor bathroom, according to a search-warrant affidavit also made public Monday. Drops of blood were on the floor leading to the bathroom, and investigators found a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun on the floor between the kitchen and bathroom, according to the affidavit.
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