South Carolina men charged with murder after police find the bodies of two women

One suspect admitted to the killings after shooting himself in the head, and surviving

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Two men have been charged with murder after police found two dead women buried in the yard of a South Carolina home.

The men were arrested on Saturday, and after one of the suspects shot himself in the head in front of deputies. He survived, and then told sheriff’s deputies that he had seen the other man kill his girlfriend.

Sheriff’s deputies in Spartanburg say that they found the bodies of 27-year-old Christin Renee Bunner and 40-ear-old Melissa Fairly Rymer on Friday, days after 41-year-old Christian Daniel Hurlburt shot himself in front of the deputies.

He was charged alongside 39-year-old Jonathan Galligan.

Investigators could not locate the two bodies on Thursday, but were able to find the women after cadaver dogs were brought in on Friday. The graves were roughly 18 inches below the surface.

“The dogs indicated in two areas,” said Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger. “We went to those two areas and were able to find human remains. They are of two people.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report