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Bitter arguing preceded murder-suicide, friends, family say

Audley Dennis, left, with his wife Karen Rodgers-Dennis

Photo credit: Handout | Audley Dennis, left, with his wife Karen Rodgers-Dennis at a dinner party three days before police say Dennis killed his wife and himself in an apparent murder-suicide in their Elmont home. (Jan. 25, 2013)

A couple argued bitterly over the wife's weight loss and socializing in the months before police say he shot her to death at their Elmont home, then turned the gun on himself, neighbors and family said Tuesday.

The couple, identified as attorney Karen Rodgers-Dennis, 46, and Audley Dennis, 58, were found dead early Monday evening in the home on Sussex Road, Nassau police said.

"She was...

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