- May 2, 2024
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Deputies conducting a welfare check on a home whose residents hadn't been seen for weeks entered the house found the two residents dead, according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office news release.
The two people found inside the house were Kyle Eyrich, 57, and his wife, Colleen Eyrich, 56.
The Sheriff's Office initially called their deaths "suspicious," but, in a news release after preliminary autopsies were performed the morning of Aug. 5, the Sheriff's Office said that the autopsies showed "no evidence of foul play or traumatic injury." As a result, according to the news release, "detectives are not calling the deaths suspicious." They will not know the final causes of death until after toxicology reports are completed, which could take as long as three months.
A neighbor called the Sheriff's Office at 4:36 p.m. Aug. 4, saying he had not seen the Eyrichs, who lived at 4 Slowdrift Turn, in a few weeks, according to a Sheriff's Office case report. He'd also gotten some of their mail, he told a deputy, and when he went over to their house to put it in their box, he saw that it was full. Their trash and recycle bins hadn't been placed outside, either.
A passerby also told a deputy who arrived at the scene that the Eyrichs' car had been sitting in the driveway for a couple of weeks, but the couple hadn't been seen, according to the case report.
The deputy had someone check the hospitals in the area to see if the couple had been admitted there. Then, with two other deputies, the deputy entered the home through the garage. The section of the case report that describes deputies finding the two bodies is redacted. Deputies secured the house with crime scene tape.
Detectives "consider the deaths to be suspicious in nature," and law enforcement officers scheduled autopsies for the morning of Aug. 5, according to the news release.
The Eyrichs' home has been the site of repeated Sheriff's Office and emergency services activity for years, and the Eyrichs have both been arrested multiple times, with both having prior arrests for domestic violence.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
