SPOKANE, Wash. — Veteran actor Albert Salmi, who found steady Hollywood work in television Westerns like "Gunsmoke," was found shot to death along with his wife, and police said today that it appeared to be a murder-suicide.
Salmi, 62, apparently shot his 55-year-old estranged wife, Roberta G. Salmi, then killed himself, police spokesman Lt. Robert Van Leuven.
A neighbor who had gone to check on Roberta Salmi on Monday night saw her body on the kitchen floor through a window and called police. Officers forced their way into the home and found Salmi's body in an upstairs den, Van Leuven said.
