MELBOURNE BEACH -- The last time Steven and Helen Kenski were seen alive, theywere home Sunday night with their 17-year-old daughter, getting ready for bed.

By Monday morning, the bodies of the husband and wife were found by a jogger onthe beach, lying just east of the sand dunes.

Steven Kenski, 40, and Helen Kenski, 41, had single gunshot wounds to the head.A revolver was found near the bodies. "Everything points to a murder-suicide,"said Lt. Mike Qualter, a homicide investigator with the Brevard County
Sheriff's Office.

"It appears he shot her and then shot himself," Qualter said.

By Monday night, investigators were searching for motives and signs of family
strife.

The only evidence of a dispute by the couple revolved around whether they would
return to Michigan to live, Qualter said of the middle-income family who
recently lived in the gated Hamptons apartment complex. There were no
indications of any medical problems or a violent domestic dispute, he said.

"We've had no calls out to their home, no injunctions, no problems that we've
been notified of," Qualter said.

Deputies responded to the beachside community after a call at 10:30 a.m.
Monday.

A jogger discovered the bodies on the beach near the 3000 block of State Road
A1A and midway between two condominium complexes.

Just two hours earlier, the Kenskis' 17-year-old daughter called the Sheriff's
Office to report her parents missing. No formal report was taken, but deputies
quickly linked the incidents using the teen's information.

"There were family issues involved," said Alex Herrera, the lead homicide agent
on the case.

The shootings are the third reported murder-suicide in Brevard County this
year. Each of the cases involved married couples, with the husband acting as
the aggressor, records show.

The medical examiner arrived at the roped off scene about 1 p.m. Amid a steady
rain, investigators photographed the bodies and conferred with each other. Five
deputies and crime scene technicians shuttled back and forth from vans and
cruisers.

A key ring with a picture of a child was glimpsed through a torn paper bag
holding personal effects from the dead man and woman.

On the beach, gusting winds and high tides pushed foamy waves to within 10
yards of the bodies.

Their bodies were found wearing casual clothes. An autopsy will be performed
today. Investigators think sometime late Sunday or early Monday they walked
from their apartment at the Hamptons to the beach.

"The last time they were seen was (Sunday) night. They were going to bed. The
daughter went to bed, everyone seemed happy," Qualter said.

Steven Kenski worked at a furniture store in Melbourne. Investigators were
unsure of his wife's occupation. The Kenskis' older daughter returned to
Brevard County from Orlando to take custody of her younger sister.

Melbourne Beach residents were stunned by the incident, saying the area rarely
experienced serious crime or even disturbances worse than firecrackers.

"It's frightening and kind of a shock," said Rick Balint, 54, one of several
onlookers who stopped to view the scene. "This area is usually calm and quiet.
I'll be interested to find out more."

When Balint saw the yellow crime scene tape, he thought someone had found a
dolphin or manatee.

"It was the furthest thing from my mind that it could have been a person," he
said.

His wife, Angie, 48, agreed.

"I am kind of scared right now because Rick works out of town," she said,
adding she and her husband live across the street from where the bodies were
found.

"I usually walk along the beach with my girlfriends," Angie Balint said, "but
now I am going to wait until police say what happened before I do that again."

Barbara Demko, 64, who lives with her husband in the Versailles complex just
south of where the bodies were found, said safety had never before been a
concern. "You can walk for miles without seeing anyone," she said.