Justine Wilbur was killed in the suspected quadruple murder-suicide on Wednesday
The five people who were found dead inside a home that caught fire have been identified, and the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide by police.
Justine Wilber and her husband Luke Karpinski, both 41, died on Wednesday in the Sheffield, Massachusetts home along with their seven-year-old twins and a three-year-old child, officials said.
Investigators believe that Karpinski murdered his family before killing himself, and that there is no ongoing threat to the public, Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington said at a press conference on Thursday evening.
Wilber was a patent attorney working for a law firm in Albany, New York, while her husband was believed to be a patent analyst for the federal government.
Investigators works at the scene of a fatal fire in Sheffield, Massachusetts on Thursday. Police responded to the fire at 7.50am on Wednesday and found five bodies inside
Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington gave a brief press conference on Thursday to identify the deceased adults and confirm a suspected murder-suicide
'It is with grief and immeasurable sorrow that we learned of the death of our friend and colleague Justine M. Wilbur, who died with her family yesterday,' the law firm of Hoffman Warnick said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
'Justine was a talented attorney who joined our team in 2017 after having built a reputation both domestically and internationally as a patent expert. Her work was both meaningful and challenging having encompassed topics ranging from cancer treatment and nanotechnology to advanced materials.
