BOULDER, Colo. -- A Boulder County man found shot to death with his wife over the weekend was due in court Monday to be sentenced for soliciting sex with young girls.

The two bodies were found just outside a home off Sugarloaf Road on Sunday by a friend who identified them as Paul James Stewart Scott, 54, and his wife Patricia Birosik, 49. The home is owned by Birosik, according to property records.

Guns were found next to the bodies, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said, and a single, joint suicide note was found in the home. Deputies say that both committed suicide and it was not a case of murder-suicide.

Scott was arrested in March 2005 and accused of searching the Internet for an 8-year-old girl to have sex with, and for a 16-year-old girl to kill him immediately after the sex act by smothering him.

An undercover police officer from Colorado Springs contacted Scott over the Internet and told him it would cost $13,200. Detective Clay Blackwell said Scott sent a cashier's check for $1,200 as a deposit and later paid $12,000 in cash. He was arrested when he allegedly produced the cash.

Scott faced original charges of solicitation for child prostitution, attempted sexual assault on a child, enticement of a child, and attempted sexual assault. He reached a plea bargain with prosecutors and entered a guilty plea to a single charge of soliciting of child prostitution.

Prosecutors had planned to ask for a 12-year sentence.

According to the Boulder Daily Camera, before the couple died, they created a trust fund for their parrot so they could leave their estate to the bird. Birosik told detectives who were investigating her husband that she wants their home to be turned into a bird sanctuary. The 4,458-square-foot Boulder County estate is believed to be worth more than $500,000.