Final reports aren’t in, but evidence suggests Canyon Country resident Dusan Klein killed his wife and then drove to Las Vegas before killing himself, the lead detective in the case said Wednesday.

“We’re not looking for outstanding suspects — our investigation still points toward the husband,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Martindale said Wednesday.

The detective said evidence suggests 59-year-old Dusan Klein, of Canyon Country, killed his wife, Renata Klein, also 59, before dumping her body in Angeles National Forest around June 12, then driving to Las Vegas and killing himself.

A Los Angeles County Coroner’s report late last month revealed Renata Klein had been asphyxiated and ruled her death a murder.

But Martindale said detectives are still awaiting a Clark County Coroner’s Department toxicology report confirming Dusan Klein’s cause of death and a final report from a Las Vegas homicide detective before closing the case.

Dan Kulin, a spokesman for the coroner’s department, said the test results on Dusan Klein’s body should be released in four to eight weeks.

Investigators ruled Dusan Klein’s death a suicide after hikers found his body in the desert about 10 miles east of Las Vegas.

Coroner’s investigators used dental records and still-visible tattoos to identify the Canyon Country man, whose body had partially decomposed after more than a week under the harsh desert sun, according to Martindale.

“The state of the body was unrecognizable,” he said.

The couple’s apparent financial problems — they were due to be evicted from their home on Wildwood Road in Canyon Country — “might have led to some domestic issues that could have led to (Renata Klein’s) death,” Martindale said.

Interviews with those who knew the couple revealed the wife may not have known her home was about to go into foreclosure, he said.

People last reported speaking to and seeing the couple days after a Realtor was slated to reclaim their house, the detective said.

“It’s an unfortunate combination of the financial ruins they were in, losing the house — everything coincides,” he said.
Meanwhile, the couple’s 10-year-old cocker spaniel, Cindy, remains missing.