Money and wine at centre of Napa County murder-suicide

NAPA, Calif. – A dispute over a $1.2 million business loan may have triggered a murder-suicide that has sent shock waves through Northern California’s idyllic Wine Country. According to investigators, vintner Robert Dahl shot and killed investor Emad Tawfilis among the grapevines of Dahl’s vineyard and then led police on a chase that ended with Dahl’s suicide on a tree-covered country road. Earlier in the day, Dahl had met with Tawfilis to work out an agreement on the dispute over the $1.2 million loan.