Suspicions Raised in Attempted Double Suicide

The story of a woman who allegedly tried to kill herself in a double suicide was drawn into question, according to records released today.

Anthony Bailey, 35, was found dead on July 7 in his home in the 27000 block of Paper Bark Avenue, and his wife, Brooke Bailey, 47, was found with lacerations to her neck.

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When Murrieta Police officers got to the couple's home at 10:51 a.m., they found the wife sitting on the front porch bleeding profusely from the neck, according to an affidavit supporting a search warrant.

They found the husband upstairs with a plastic bag taped around his head. A hose was stuck inside, and the other end was fixed to a tank, according to Murrieta Police Detective Spencer Parker.

"Anthony had a plastic bag around his face and head secured with duct tape, and it appeared a rubber hose line was secured to the plastic bag and was attached to a large metal canister of helium," Parker wrote in the affidavit.

Emergency workers tried to resuscitate the victim, but failed. He was pronounced dead at 11:24 a.m., Parker wrote.

Statements the wife made raised suspicions, later leading investigators to get a search warrant to examine evidence.
Brooke Bailey told investigators she and her husband planned to commit suicide after they were arrested in April on suspicion of bilking her mother, according to the affidavit.

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Brooke Bailey planned to cut her throat, and her husband planned to hang himself. They agreed to carry out their plan on July 4, she told investigators.

That morning, she lay in her bed next to her husband and cut her throat. She bled, passed out and woke up on July 7. Her husband was no longer lying next to her, so she crawled out of bed to the front door and called 911, she told investigators.

"Brooke told me she had no idea where Anthony was or what his condition was and assumed he committed suicide by hanging," the detective wrote.

Parker got suspicious when he heard a recording of Bailey's 911 call, which contradicted her story.

"She was recorded saying she committed suicide by cutting her throat and said her husband was not breathing, was upstairs and used helium," Parker wrote. "Brooke changed her story and told me Anthony panicked when she did not die and decided to use helium to kill himself."

She denied seeing her husband commit suicide, but another detail raised more suspicion.

Parker found blood drops on a blanket lying next to Anthony Bailey's body, though he had no cuts, according to the detective.

"I wondered if she indeed laid next to Anthony prior to or during his suicide," Parker wrote.