BALLWIN, Mo. – The St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed the identities of two people found dead last month inside their Ballwin home.
On January 30, a mail carrier noticed mail piling up in a mailbox in the 400 block of Sunnyslope Drive and contacted police to request a welfare check. Ballwin police entered the home, located just two miles from the police department, and discovered the decomposing bodies of a woman and a man.
Police said the bodies had been in the home for a while.
The woman was identified as 87-year-old Mary Monson and the man was identified as 50-year-old John Monson Jr. They were mother and son.
Investigators said both lived at the residence on Sunnyslope. The medical examiner’s office did not disclose a cause of death.
Note: The video in this story is from January 31, 2024.
