Shocking: Indiana Doctor Kills Himself And New Wife Just Few Hours After Wedding (Photo)

I really ponder on the kind of misunderstanding that amounted to such a tragedy just hours after 'till death Do us apart'

It was supposed to be the couple's happiest day: Kelly Ecker, a nurse, and Dr. George Scott Samson married Saturday afternoon in Terre Haute, Indiana.  By their wedding night, both were dead.

Samson, an anesthesiologist at Union Hospital is Terre Haute, shot his bride and then himself in their home just hours after they exchanged vows, authorities said.


Some wedding guests noticed tension between the couple almost immediately after each said "I do," said Vigo County Sheriff Chief Deputy Clark Cottom.

"Some guests are telling us the bride and groom didn't speak to each other at the reception," he said.

After the reception, the couple hosted members of the bridal party at their home on outside Terre Haute, Cottom said.

Not long after the last guest left, the county dispatch center received a 911 call, according to a transcript and tape provided by authorities.

According to People.com -Some Witnesses say the couple started arguing at the reception. "They were having some domestic problems at the house," a police spokesman tells News10. "Within a short amount of time guests decided it would be best if they left. Shortly after the last guest left, that's when things went terribly wrong."


During what police say were three very brief 911 calls, Kelly Samson said her husband had beaten her and threatened to kill her, reports the Indianapolis Star.

They found her body in a bedroom and her husband's body in the home's basement. Kelly Samson's 10-year-old son from a previous marriage and an elderly couple, believed to be George Samson's parents, were in the home during the shootings but were unharmed, the Telegraph reports. Samson, an anesthesiologist at a local hospital, was also registered as a federal firearms dealer, and police say he legally owned the .45-caliber handgun used in the shootings.