As his marriage crumbled, an Antioch man secretly drafted his wife’s suicide note with murder on his mind, police say

ANTIOCH — The Leon children never quite believed the story about how their mother died.

Something about the way Brenda Leon was found dead in 2015 from an apparent self-inflected gunshot wound in her Antioch home never sat right with her daughters. They suspected the worst: their father had done it.

Now a decade later, police and prosecutors have come to the same conclusion.

New evidence revealed in court records this past week accuse 67-year-old Michael Anthony Leon of orchestrating his then-wife’s death...