DUNCAN, Okla., Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The publisher of two weekly newspapers in Oklahoma, his wife and daughter were found slain in their home in Duncan, police said.
The bodies of John Hruby, 50, his wife, Katherine "Tinker" Hruby, 48, and Katherine, 17, were found by a housekeeper Monday morning. Investigators believe they were killed late Thursday or early Friday.
"It is a homicide...It may well be a day or two or three before we really know exactly what all was going on," Stephens County District Attorney Jason Hicks said late Monday.
Hruby sold the Duncan Banner in 1997. He returned to weekly newspapers with the purchase of the Marlow Review in 2007 and the Comanche County Chronicle last year.
While police were releasing little information, Mark Thomas, executive vice president of the Oklahoma Press Association, said the Hrubys were shot.
The couple's son, Alan, 19, was being held on a stolen check charge Monday, Sgt. Danny Foraker of the Duncan Police Department said. Alan Hruby, a freshman at the University of Oklahoma, pleaded guilty in January to using his grandmother's credit card.
