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Three deaths still a mystery

 
Published July 23, 2002|Updated Sept. 3, 2005

No further information was released Monday about the three deaths off Hernando County's coast last week. The medical examiner's reports, which had been expected to be finished Monday, weren't done yet.

Sheriff's investigators still aren't saying how Byron Ladell Shiver, 58, his mother, Louise Crews Shiver, 79, and his wife, Joan Shiver, 60, died. Shiver and his mother were found aboard a 30-foot-long pontoon boat. His wife was found floating Thursday in the shallow waters of Centipede Bay near Hernando Beach.

Investigators also haven't said whether it was a double murder-suicide or a triple homicide, but they have said no suspects are thought to be lurking in wait for more victims.