By CASEY NEILL
POLICE are investigating a second suspicious death in Noble Park in eight days.
A 52-year-old woman died outside her Theodore Avenue home last Thursday morning.
Neighbours heard “screams then the silence” and called for an ambulance about 5.45am on 6 February.
Acting Senior Sergeant Duncan Bartley said paramedics and CFA crews responded and found a woman slumped on the ground beside her car, “not breathing, not conscious, no pulse”.
They attempted CPR but were unable to revive her.
Police arrived about 6.30am and locked down the scene.
“She appears to have been confronted at that vehicle in the front yard,” Act Sen Sgt Bartley said.
“It’s a suspicious death so the Homicide Squad are investigating.”
SES members were combing the street this afternoon.
“From the possible injuries we’re trying to locate a possible weapon,” Act Sen Sgt Bartley said.
He said it appeared the victim was home by herself at the time of her death, but that she didn’t live alone.
Her son, a shift-worker, arrived home from work shortly after police arrived.
Act Sen Sgt Bartley expected an autopsy would be completed today.
A Noble Park man called triple zero with a desperate plea for help just minutes before his death on 30 January.
Alan Matthews, 69, told the call-taker he’d been assaulted.
Police found him dead in the bathroom of his Henry Street home shortly before 4am.
Homicide Squad detectives charged former tenant Kristy Robb, 26, from Hallam, and her boyfriend, a Narre Warren man, 40, with intentionally causing serious injury.
Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 with any information.
