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Gold Coast couple found dead at home being treated as a murder-suicide.

There’s been a grim discovery in a Queensland home.

Police are treating the deaths of a man and a woman who were both found at their home on the Gold Coast yesterday afternoon, as a murder suicide.

Police were called to the home in Dotterel Drive, Burleigh Waters around 4.30pm to find 46-year-old Dave Lee in the house, and 36-year-old Melinda Horner in a car on the property according to 9News.

Dave Lee and Melinda Horner. Source: Facebook/Dave Lee, Facebook/Melinda Horner.

7News reported that Lee was inside the house, and Horner was to be believed to have suffocated from fumes in the car.

According to Brisbane TimesLee was a stonemason and Horner a youth worker, and were found by friends visiting the home.

Forensic crews are remaining at the scene.

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