Duo sought in connection with Watertown homicide

WATERTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Police are searching for two people in connection with a Watertown homicide investigation.

Police spent a day and a half combing through 347 Falls Avenue. Neighbors called police about the smell Saturday night, and police found the bodies of a mother and son inside.

"Victim number 1 is Donna Ciampi Bouffard, age 58. Victim number two is Michael Perkins, age 26, her son," said Chief John Gavallas, Watertown Police Dept.

Police say they'd been dead three to five days and during that time, the family car disappeared. Police used LoJack and found people driving around Norwich in it Sunday night.

"We're presently processing the car for evidentiary value and speaking to those people who had custody of that vehicle after the murder was committed," Gavallas said.

However, police say the people in the car had nothing to do with what happened on Falls Avenue. Neighbors say the mother and son living there had let a couple stay with them and police say that couple took the car and sold it to the people in Norwich.

Police want to question that couple. The woman is 26-year-old Elizabeth Swiderski. She's 5'4", 175 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. The man is 36-year-old Claude Turner. He's 5'9", 190 pounds with a shaved head.

Anyone who has seen Turner or Swiderski is asked to call Watertown Police at 860-945-5200.