Seminole triple shooting leads investigators overseas
John and Dale Marshall’s marriage produced five children, but their divorce spawned animosity.
There were fights reported over custody, visitation and child support. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office says he was way behind and hard to catch up to.
“We have put him all over the place, all over the world, actually,” said Lt. James Clark.
Clark said the Marshalls lived together for a time in England.
“He’s lived in England, Africa, Costa Rica and Colorado. He’s been all over the United States.”
Records show Marshall was arrested in 2006 in Seminole County for Misuse of Child Support.
A source close to Dale and her new husband Orval Burkhart said they went to France about a year and a half ago to stop Marshall from selling two homes he owned. Marshall may have been trying to keep them from claiming it. The Burkharts won, came back flush with cash, but Marshall wasn’t finished.
He arrived at the home on Holbrook Circle at 7:30 a.m. Thursday after Dale and their youngest daughter had left. The girl was headed to school. Orval was home alone.
Investigators believe Marshall then started shooting at the front door and went around the home, firing through windows.
“There was probably, here in the residence, three to five gunshots,” said Lt. Clark.
Burkhart fled down the street, but Marshall caught him and killed him, say detectives.
“A man with a gun just shot somebody in the head in front of my house!” an alarmed resident relayed to a 9-1-1 operator. Many neighbors had called, stunned by the violence in their suburban streets.
Then Dale returned home, saw the scene and tried to reverse her SUV and flee, but was shot and killed on the spot. Marshall turned the 9 mm pistol on himself and died ten feet away, in the street.
The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that they are looking into Marshall’s foreign holdings, but it’ll take days because of international jurisdictions.