Report: Murrieta woman killed boyfriend, then herself

After a month-long investigation, authorities have concluded that a Murrieta woman shot her boyfriend to death before killing herself, police said today.

Murrieta Police officers, working with Riverside County Sheriff's detectives, responded to a residence in the 36000 block of Moonbrook Lane in Murrieta on March 24 while following a lead on a missing person's report. They found a 53-yard-old male and 51-year-old female dead of gunshot wounds in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.

Investigators have determined that Heidi Jo Herckt shot and killed her boyfriend, Michael McMillian, then turned the gun on herself. Herckt was the subject of a missing person's investigation conducted by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, believing she still lived in Fallbrook.