The deaths Sunday of a married couple in northern Pennsylvania has been confirmed by police as a violent, bloody murder-suicide.

As WNEP reports, Daniel Arangio, 58, of Exeter Township, Luzerne County, killed his wife, Valerie Arangio, 47, by striking her in the head with an ax, police say.

He then killed himself, dying of what police say was a self-inflicted stab wound.

However, police did not specify any motive in the violent case.

The couple's bloodied bodies were discovered inside their home around 2 p.m. Sunday, shocking neighbors.

Those neighbors tell WNEP the couple stayed to themselves, and nobody in the neighborhood seemed to know them all that well. For more details or video on the story, go here.