Overview
- Family members requested a welfare check that led officers to the Litchfield Park home on Aug. 4 when they had not heard from a couple and their adult son.
- Officers reported finding large amounts of blood and signs of an attempt to clean the house, and excavation of the backyard uncovered two decomposing bodies in shallow graves.
- The U.S. Marshals Service obtained a federal arrest warrant charging unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and has taken the lead on an international search, describing the suspect as dangerous.
- Authorities have named 27-year-old Matthew Christopher Flores Semyonov as a suspect who is believed to have left the United States and urged the public not to approach him while offering a tipline for information.
- Local investigators continue to lead the homicide inquiry, the victims were publicly identified by local reporting as Hector and Larissa Flores, and officials say formal identification, autopsies and forensic evidence collection are still pending.