SAN CLEMENTE –Fingerprint experts are expected to help identify the badly decomposed bodies of five family members who were discovered in a house here over the weekend, Sheriff’s officials said Monday.
Two handguns were found in the house on Campanilla Street in the gated Sea Point Estates neighborhood overlooking the ocean, officials said. The bodies were discovered late Sunday afternoon after relatives went to the house.
Sheriff’s Lt. Erin Giudice declined to give the exact street address for the house, but neighbors said it was 31 Campanilla. That house is owned by Manas Ucar, property record show. Ucar is listed as a consulting engineer and an expert witness for accident investigations, according to ca-experts.com – an online California database of expert witnesses.
Property records also list a Margaret or Margrit Ucar at the address.
The neighborhood, set on a hillside, has large homes worth between $1.5 million and $2 million, according to Zillow.com.
Found dead in the house were a man and a woman in their 40s or 50s, twin sisters in their 20s, and an older woman in her 70s or 80s, Giudice said.
The middle-aged man and woman were found near a closet off a first-floor bedroom, each with a handgun nearby. One of the guns was registered to the woman, Giudice said; she did not know to whom the second was registered, or whether either gun had been fired.
The two younger women and the older woman were found nearby, in the first-floor bedroom. Giudice said there was no sign of a struggle and nothing else in the bedroom appeared to be amiss.
The man appeared to have suffered a gunshot wound, Giudice said. One more of the dead might also have been shot, she said, but the bodies were so badly decomposed that investigators were not certain.
Autopsies of the five bodies began on Monday morning, but Giudice said it would likely take until Tuesday to get any results, including the identities of the dead. Fingerprint experts are expected to arrive Tuesday to help identify the bodies.
The family that owned the house, the Ucars, had twin daughters in their early 20s, said Roxie Weaver, a neighbor.
In an interview with KDOC-TV’s Daybreak OC news show, to be aired Tuesday, Weaver said “You could hardly tell (the twins) apart because they always dressed exactly alike.”
Grace and Margaux Ucar were 2004 graduates of San Clemente High School, according to a yearbook Weaver showed to KDOC. A Grace and Margo Ucar studied human biology at UC S