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Lead develops in homicides, abductions

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, May 19 (UPI) -- Idaho investigators looking into a triple killing and two missing children have made contact with a man they want to question, but not as a suspect.

Capt. Ben Wolfinger of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department said Robert Roy Lutner, 33, of Hayden, Idaho, who had been named a person of interest in the case, called them Wednesday, but Wolfinger did not say from where.

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"He is a person of interest because we know he was here at the residence on Sunday evening," Wolfinger said. "That's the last time frame we can put everybody here at the house alive."

He said deputies have received numerous tips about the slayings, some from "real weird people."

The bodies of Brenda Groene, her 13-year-old son, Slade, and Mark McKenzie, 37 were found in a home in Coeur D'Alene Monday night. The bodies were tied up, ruling out a murder-suicide, CNN reported Thursday.

Meanwhile, two of the woman's children, Dylan, 9, and Shasta, 8, remain missing.

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