Cyclist Couple Found Stabbed To Death With Their Throats Slit In Gruesome Double Homicide

On Tuesday, Daytona Beach Police released surveillance video revealing a person of interest in the gruesome double homicide of a local married couple, whose throats were slashed after joining the town’s annual Bike Week festivities this weekend.

Two days ago, on Sunday, Passersby found the bodies of Terry Aultman, 48, and Brenda Aultman, 55, in a blood-drenched patch of grass near the intersection of North Wild Olive Avenue and Riverview Boulevard just before 2 a.m., according to the Daily Mail.

“We found two people, possibly dead. There's blood everywhere,” a 911 caller can be heard informing a dispatcher.

Initially, responding officers suspected that the Aultmans had been the victims of a hit-and-run accident but soon they saw multiple stab wounds and lacerations on their bodies.

The pair was on their way home from a bar on Main Street following the annual Bike Week festivities when they met their tragic end. The victims’ bikes sat next to their corpses.

Paramedics on the scene declared the couple dead “within minutes of the initial 911 call,” police said.

By Tuesday, law enforcement shared security camera footage of a black man, who was in a gray tank top, a black cowboy hat, white pants, and a pair of bright-red gloves and tan boots, strolling along Seabreeze Boulevard just after midnight on Sunday, the Daytona Beach News-Journal noted.

Investigators believe the man in question had been walking east towards A1A about two hours before the attack that took place just half a mile away in the low-income community of Daytona Beach, which currently grapples with high crime rates.

“This is probably one of the most vicious and gruesome incidents that I’ve witnessed in my 20 years,” Police Chief Jakari Young said. “We can't rule out that this may be random, but if it is random, the person responsible has to be deranged,”

Young added the motive behind the savage double homicide could not be plain robbery since the assailant left the victims' valuables in their possession, the Daily Beast reported.

Meanwhile, the killer remains at large, described as a man wearing light-colored pants and carrying a backpack. Anyone with information on the suspect is urged to call Detective Collin Howell at 386-671-5257.