GREAT POND, Maine — The deaths of two people whose bodies were found after a Great Pond house fire in May were determined to be a murder-suicide, according to state officials.
Aurora fire crews responded to a report of a house fire in the early morning hours on Monday, May 20, at 23 Old Dam Way in Great Pond, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said Tuesday in a news release.
At the scene, fire crews discovered two bodies and notified the state fire marshal's office.
Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit North responded to investigate. Both were taken to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta, where autopsies were performed.
The state medical examiner's office identified one victim as 35-year-old Marie Robbins, who had lived at the home involved in the fire. Robbins' cause of death was ruled undetermined, but the manner of her death was homicide, Moss said.
The second body was identified as 38-year-old Ryan Devisme of Aurora.
"The OCME has determined cause of death as toxic effects of carbon monoxide with the presence of a gunshot wound and manner of death as suicide," the release stated. "The investigation indicates that Devisme set the house on fire before sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head."
Moss said Robbins and Devisme had been in a relationship together.
No additional details were released.