Groom Kills Self and New Bride Hours After Wedding

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October 8, 2014 3:03 PM

A wedding ceremony that started happily ended in a double tragedy after a groom shot his new bride and himself dead.

A wedding in Indiana ended tragically after the groom, Dr. George 'Scott' Samson, an anesthesiologist shot dead his wife, early on Sunday morning, just a few hours after they exchanged marriage vows.

The incident which happened after the last guest left their wedding party was allegedly an "alcohol fueled argument" over a pre-nuptial agreement.

Samson, 54, is said to have told his new wife, Kelly Ecker, 50, that she would 'never get her hands on his money' during the wedding reception at the Ohio Building in Terre Haute on Saturday evening.

According to Daily Mail, witnesses said the argument became increasingly bitter when the wedding after-party moved to Samson and Ecker's mansion, with guests deciding to leave at 1.17am on Sunday morning as the fighting escalated.

Three minutes after the final guest departed, Ecker, who is a nurse at the same hospital as Samson, made the first of three terrified 911 calls claiming her husband was going to kill her.

The first two frantic calls to the dispatcher ended abruptly, but moments later Ecker phoned back, her trembling voice pleading for help, before a volley of gunshots rang out and the phone line cut.

Less than half-an-hour later, officers who who responded to the couple's Terre Haute home discovered the body of Ecker, fatally shot in the head and neck and in the basement, the body of Samson, who had taken his own life with a 45-caliber semi automatic pistol.

According to Advance Indiana, the reception had been changed from the newlywed's home to the Ohio Building at the last minute and the marquee tent set up in their garden still hauntingly sits outside their home.

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