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Albuquerque police worked until early this morning searching a Northeast Heights home for clues but offered no explanation for the violent deaths of its two occupants.

Police spokesman John Walsh said the deaths of a 69-year-old woman and her 79-year-old husband on the 6900 block of Avenida La Costa Northeast is being investigated as a double homicide, but said no one was in custody as of noon.

The couple's son told police he had not heard from them for a day and checked on them around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. He called police for help, Walsh said.

Officers found one of the victims in a hallway and the other in the kitchen area, both having suffered "head trauma," Walsh said, which could have been from beating, shooting or stabbing.

An autopsy will determine what killed them, he said, adding that the first officers on the scene did not see anything ransacked or forced open.

Next-door neighbor Shari Miller said she had lived there five years but didn't know the couple. They were friendly, she said.

"I just can't understand who or why," Miller said of the crime. "I guess you do get a little nervous when something like this happens. But you see it everywhere these days. To a degree, it doesn't matter what kind of neighborhood you live in."