CHICAGO - One of the most prominent couples in the psychotherapy field in the city were found dead in their Hyde Park home on Saturday, and colleagues and friends were shocked to learn of the apparent murder-suicide.
Dead are psychotherapist Dr. Margaret L. Shanahan and her husband, popular retired teacher and therapist Dr. Richard Moore, who were found shot to death in their home Saturday morning by police and firefighters conducting a well-being check.
“Chicago Theological Seminary is deeply saddened by the deaths of Dr. Margaret Shanahan and Professor Robert Moore,” a statement from the seminary said. “Professor Moore was a valued member of the Seminary’s faculty from 1977 until his retirement from full-time teaching in 2012.”
Officers assisting the Chicago Fire Department with a well-being check in the 1400 block of East 54th Street found a 65-year-old woman and 73-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the head at 9:49 a.m., according to Chicago Police. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The medical examiner’s office on Tuesday identified the woman as Shanahan, who lived in the home where she was found. An autopsy showed she died of a gunshot wound to the head and her death was ruled a homicide.
On Wednesday, the medical examiner’s office confirmed Moore was also killed by a gunshot wound to the head, and ruled his death a suicide.
The couple was heavily involved in the Jungian field of psychology in Chicago, where Stephen Martz, president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, said he was “stunned” by the news about the couple, whom he had known for years.
Dead are psychotherapist Dr. Margaret L. Shanahan and her husband, popular retired teacher and therapist Dr. Richard Moore, who were found shot to death in their home Saturday morning by police and firefighters conducting a well-being check.
“Chicago Theological Seminary is deeply saddened by the deaths of Dr. Margaret Shanahan and Professor Robert Moore,” a statement from the seminary said. “Professor Moore was a valued member of the Seminary’s faculty from 1977 until his retirement from full-time teaching in 2012.”
Officers assisting the Chicago Fire Department with a well-being check in the 1400 block of East 54th Street found a 65-year-old woman and 73-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the head at 9:49 a.m., according to Chicago Police. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The medical examiner’s office on Tuesday identified the woman as Shanahan, who lived in the home where she was found. An autopsy showed she died of a gunshot wound to the head and her death was ruled a homicide.
On Wednesday, the medical examiner’s office confirmed Moore was also killed by a gunshot wound to the head, and ruled his death a suicide.
The couple was heavily involved in the Jungian field of psychology in Chicago, where Stephen Martz, president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, said he was “stunned” by the news about the couple, whom he had known for years.
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