SOMERSET MURDER-SUICIDE: MICHAEL KAFTON KILLS WIFE AND DIES IN CAR TRAGEDY
Christine Kafton, a 36-year-old businesswoman, was murdered by her husband - dentist Michael Kafton - at their home in Stapleton in 1990.Mr Kafton, 36, shot his wife with a rifle while their six-year-old son was present at the home they had owned for over two years.
Michael was later found dead in a rented car filled with exhaust fumes.
An article in the Somerset County Gazette from Friday, April 13, 1990, began: “Terrified and confused David Kafton is still helping detectives to piece together events which led to the brutal murder of his mother at the family’s luxury Staplegrove home.” The six-year-old called 999 at 6:30am on Tuesday, April 10, and when the police arrived, they found Mrs Kafton dead in her bedroom in a pool of blood with a discharged shotgun nearby.
The shooting took place six weeks after the couple had separated.
Mrs Kafton, who owned clothes shops in Taunton and Exeter, had been living in Corfe.
Michael was later found dead in a rented car filled with exhaust fumes.
