Woman commits suicide as police show up; man found in home may have been dead for a month.

12:35pm UPDATE: The body of a woman who apparently shot herself as police arrived at her Alamogordo home on Monday has been identified as that of Sammie Griffin, according to the latest from The Associated Press.

A badly decomposed body found in an enclosed porch at the home hasn't been positively identified yet, but is believed to be Griffin's husband, Christopher, whose relatives had alerted police that he hadn't been heard from for several weeks.

Preliminary autopsy results show that the man had died of a gunshot wound to the head, but the state Office of the Medical Investigator couldn't say how long he had been dead, according to the AP report.

Investigators earlier guessed the man had been dead about a month, according to the Alamogordo Daily News. 

Police arrived at an Alamogordo home Monday afternoon to serve a warrant looking for a man whose family hadn't seen him for several weeks and found two bodies inside the house, the Alamogordo Daily News reported.

When police showed up around 1 p.m. at the house, a woman inside the house said she was on the phone and asked them to wait, but when she didn't come to the door, officers entered the house and found her with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Daily News reported.

Sgt. Lee Wilder of the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety told the Daily News that officers then found a dead man in a fully enclosed back porch and the body was in an advanced state of decomposition, indicating he may have been dead for close to a month.

The residents of the home on the 1400 block of Columbia at the corner of Airport Road were identified as Christopher and Sammi Griffin, but police hadn't positively identified the bodies as of Monday night, the Daily News said.

Police had received numerous calls from the man's relatives, who told them he had not been heard from for several weeks, the paper reported.

The woman had been contacted several times by police, who said her story about the man's whereabouts turned out to be untrue, so a search warrant was obtained, Wilder told the Daily News. 

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