WREX.com – Rockford’s News LeaderFather of Illinois boys found dead believed to have hanged himself
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Jack ConnollyBLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- A McLean County Sheriff's Department investigator says it appears the father of two young central Illinois boys found dead Sunday hung or strangled himself.
Lt. Jeff Elston says Michael Connolly had a rope around his neck when he was found in rural Putnam County on Sunday. Connolly was near a car containing his sons' bodies. Authorities believe he killed them.
Nine-year-old Duncan Connolly and his brother, 7-year-old Jack, had been missing since their father failed to return them to their mother in LeRoy, Ill., on March 8 after a weekend custody visit.
Putnam County Coroner Bob Cofoid has says autopsy results are pending.
Elston says his agency will not say how the boys died because their mother doesn't want to know.
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