Sydney Sumner

They discovered the body and then they notified us.

Police launched a manhunt for Becker, warning the public he was armed and dangerous.

His body was found just before 10.30 a.m.

on Sunday.

The medical examiner will determine his cause of death.

Becker's brother said the divorcee owned a comedy club in Bisbee, Arizona, and had recently been diagnosed with cancer.

More crime and justice news after this.

A 92-year-old millionaire developer was found dead and decomposing in a swanky beach home in California's Hermosa Beach last week, and a suspect was arrested after a seven-hour standoff.

Hermosa Beach police said they were asked to conduct a welfare check shortly after noon on Saturday, after a landlord at the home reported that they hadn't heard from a tenant there in several days.

Police said upon arrival, officers observed evidence suggesting a possible deceased person inside.

The property manager allowed officers access to the location where they encountered an individual inside who was not the tenant.

The individual was uncooperative, made statements indicating possibly being armed, and barricaded themselves inside the residence.

SWAT teams responded to the home, and negotiators eventually persuaded the suspect to surrender.

Once inside the home, investigators found the dead man, later identified as prominent real estate developer Demetrius DeCoulos.

The suspect was identified by two names, 39-year-old Robert Philip Simmons and Eleanor Beaulieu.

During the standoff, residents and tourists were evacuated from the area.

Simmons-Beaulieu finally came out of the residence looking like a Blues brother, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, sunglasses, and fedora.

On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Simmons-Beaulieu with a single count of murder.

The indictment said that investigators believed DeCoulos was killed sometime between March 7th and March 14th.

A California woman and her boyfriend have been charged with 27 counts of torture and child abuse related to their treatment of the woman's 11-year-old niece that included strangulation, dragging her around on a dog leash, and forcing her to sleep in an uninsulated garage.