NJ family reported missing 24 hours before they were found dead in murder-suicide at $1.7M mansion

The New Jersey family killed a tragic murder-suicide was reported missing more than 24 hours before police found their bodies, according to prosecutors.

A mystery caller reported something awry at the $1.7 million home in Montgomery Township — where David Grodnick, 61, his wife Lora Grodnick, 62, and daughter, Sloane Grodnick, 24, were each found with gunshot wounds to the head — to police at 2:59 pm on Oct. 1, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

The caller asked Montgomery Township Police to check on the family.

David Grodnick, senior vice president and underwriting counsel for Land Services USA, is pictured with his dog. VSCO/Sloane Grodnick
Sloane Grodnick and her mother Lora Grodnick are pictured in an undated photo. Instagram/Lori Grodnick
The mansion of New Jersey insurance executive David Grodnick owns in Montgomery Township, NJ. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post

When nobody answered the door at the home, police launched  an investigation into their whereabouts, themontynews.org reported.

Montgomery police didn’t enter the home to do a welfare check until the next day, Oct. 2,  at around 5:52 p.m., prosecutors said.

Sloane Grodnick and her father David Grodnick are seen in a photo from 2018. VSCO/Sloane Grodnick
Sloane Grodnick is seen in a photograph from 2019. She was allegedly killed by her father. Obtained by NY Post

They found Lora and Sloane Grodnick dead in two separate bedrooms and David with a gun, prosecutors said.

Investigators  determined Lora and Sloane’s deaths to be homicides and David’s a suicide.

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