A woman who was killed Saturday in her West Toledo house in a stabbing incident in which her husband was seriously injured was a stay-at-home grandmother and a good neighbor, those who knew her said.
“She was a very friendly, very nice lady,” Paul Luttke, 46, a neighbor of about five years, said of Suzanne Dixon, the victim who died. “It was a tragedy [what happened]. It made me angry and frustrated that somebody would lose control like that and would hurt somebody else.”
Mr. Luttke went on to say that Mrs. Dixon had mostly stayed home, helping one of her daughters take care of her children. She had also helped him with advice and had given food to his special-needs son, who doesn’t talk, he said.
Judge Timothy Kuhlman set bond at $2 million Monday for Michael Dean, who was accused of fatally stabbing Mrs. Dixon and cutting the throat of her husband, Bruce Dixon, in their West Toledo house Saturday. Mr. Dixon, whose age was not available, was also stabbed “multiple times,” according to court records. Neighbors have said Mr. Dean and one of the Dixons’ daughters have a child together.
During his arraignment Monday in Toledo Municipal Court on charges of murder and attempt to commit murder, Mr. Dean, 32, of the 3500 block of West Alexis Road was ordered held in the Lucas County jail in lieu of the bond pending his next court appearance, scheduled for today. His arraignment was continued to allow him to hire an attorney or have an attorney assigned to represent him.
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Judge Kuhlman did not give the defendant the option to be released on only 10 percent of the bond.
Dr. Cynthia Beisser, a deputy Lucas County coroner who conducted an autopsy Monday on Mrs. Dixon, said she died from multiple stab wounds.
Mr. Dixon was taken to ProMedica Toledo Hospital for treatment after the stabbing at the Dixons’ home on Dixon Avenue about 11 a.m. A hospital spokesman said Monday she had no information about a person by that name.
Toledo police also did not return calls Sunday and Monday about the crimes.
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First Published May 17, 2016, 4:00 a.m.