Man charged with murder after couple found dead in southeast Melbourne home
Police located the 39-year-old woman and 50-year-old man at the property on Adrienne Crescent in Mount Waverley shortly before 10pm on Monday.
The couple has been identified as Athena Georgopoulos, who was five months pregnant with a baby girl, and her partner Andrew Gunn, The Herald Sun reports.
A 34-year-old man was arrested hours after the alleged murders at Westall train station, which is about a 10-minute drive from the Mount Waverley property.
Police have described the man as having no fixed address.
He was charged with two counts of murder is expected to appear before Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
It has been reported Mr Gunn was decapitated in the alleged killing.
Detective Inspector Dean Thomas told the media on Tuesday officers suspected the man charged with the pair's murder was known to them, and that one of them lived at the Mount Waverley property.
'It appears to be targeted and our suspect is known to the address,' he said.
Inspector Thomas said officers received a call for a welfare check 'based on some yelling' from the property, and a second call minutes later.
He said the man was located with two large dogs before his arrest.
Images from the scene showed scrawled on a property, including betrayal', 'enough is enough' and 'karma'.
'Police are aware of graffiti on the property in Mount Waverley where the bodies of two people were located last night,' a police spokesman said.
'Homicide Squad detectives will work to determine if the graffiti is relevant to the murder investigation.'
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