Former Beatles stalker murdered in California

Beatle fans write tributes and light a candle in memory of former Beatle George Harrison on the wall outside the Abbey Road studios in London November 30, 2001.[Reuters]

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who once broke into former Beatles guitarist George Harrison's Hawaii home has been found dead in California, the victim of a murder-suicide, a police officer said on Sunday.

Cristin Keleher, 34, made headlines in December 1999 by entering Harrison's Maui estate and then cooking herself a frozen pizza and helping herself to a root beer. After she did her laundry and called her mother, she was found by the security staff and charged with burglary.

She had apparently been stalking Harrison for months.

On December 19 of this year police in Truckee near California's popular Lake Tahoe found her body and that of a 48-year-old man in a SUV vehicle, both with gunshot wounds to their heads, according to a coroner's report.

"From the investigation it appears that she was shot first and then he shot himself, so it is a murder-suicide," Nevada County Sheriff's Sgt. Shannan Moon said on Sunday. "It sounds like a closed case."