SOUTH PARIS, Maine (WGAN)  State Police continue to investigate the deaths of a man and woman found inside a downtown South Paris apartment Tuesday night.

Autopsies on the bodies will begin this morning at the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta.

The bodies of 31-year-old Heath Bickford and 31-year-old Dana Hill were found in a first floor apartment, next door to the Market Square Restaurant, which is in the center of the downtown.

Police say Bickford’s two children, ages 8 and two months, were also in the apartment and have now been placed in the custody of the Maine Department of Health and HumanServices.  The children were not injured.

Bickford is from Canton and Hill was renting the apartment, according to police.

Police were called to the apartment about 8:30 Tuesday night by a man who knows the couple.

A team of State Police evidence technicians will be joining the investigation this morning.