June 27, 2006

A SICK, SICK MAN...





GODFREY, Ill. (AP) — A doctor who hurled his two sons off a Florida hotel balcony and then leaped to his own death had accused his wife of having an affair with the family's gardener, according to investigators.


Investigators said in court papers unsealed Friday that Dr. Edward Van Dyk's wife told them that he had accused her of being unfaithful. The court papers did not specify when Van Dyk made the allegation.


On May 27, the 43-year-old cancer specialist threw his sons, ages 4 and 8, to their deaths from the 15th floor of a hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., and then jumped. Van Dyk and his wife, Qinuo, were on vacation, celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary, authorities said. Van Dyk left no suicide note, authorities said at the time.


Investigators looking for clues to the crime searched the Van Dyk home in Godfrey, seizing a computer and related disks, a handwritten note, digital and video cameras, and an anniversary card, according to court papers.





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