The bodies of a 52-year-old Aurora man and his 16-year-old Colorado Springs daughter were found near Red Feather Lakes Road on Monday afternoon by deputies after what has been determined to be a murder-suicide by the Larimer County Coroner’s Office.

Deputy Coroner Investigator Greg Fairman said Robert Wolf shot his daughter, Denver Wolf, on Sunday in the chest while the two were in Park County on a spring break trip across the western slope. He said she died instantly.

From there, according to Fairman’s investigation, Robert Wolf drove with Denver Wolf’s body in his Subaru to the Livermore area and shot himself twice in the chest. He attempted a third shot but a sweat shirt was caught in the .22 semi-automatic pistol and it did not fire.

“He placed the pistol on the dashboard on top of a pile of suicide letters,” Fairman said, adding that Robert Wolf died slowly.

Fairman said from their investigation they gathered that Robert Wolf was struggling with his divorce from Denver Wolf’s mother — family members confirmed to investigators that the man had struggled with mental issues and alcoholism.

Larimer County Sheriff’s Office deputies, according to a released statement, began to search for the father and daughter Monday morning at the request of the Colorado Springs Police Department. They found the pair in a car around 12:50 p.m. Monday in the 3700 block of West County Road 82E.

According to the release from the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, the agency located them with the help of residents in the area.

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