Overview
- A family member requested a welfare check Saturday evening after the couple missed dinner at their Gilbert home on Stratford Avenue.
- Officers found 91-year-old Oscar Casdorph dead and an 81-year-old woman with obvious signs of trauma who was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
- Detectives located the couple’s missing vehicle in Glendale around 6 a.m. Sunday and arrested 56-year-old Gary Crawford, who had recently been living at the home.
- He was booked on first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, fraudulent schemes, theft of means of transportation, and tampering with physical evidence, with bond set at $2 million.
- Investigators noted suspicious activity in Casdorph’s bank accounts and say the incident appears isolated with no other suspects.