One Heart, Two Husbands: Both Suicides? Husbands #'s 3 & 5

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/13/national/main4011785.shtml

Police Investigate Death Of Heart Transplant Recipient Who Had Married Widow Of Donor

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C., April 13, 2008

(AP) Georgia investigators are continuing to look into the death of a heart transplant recipient whose body was found earlier this month in the back yard of his Vidalia, Ga., home.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Todd Lowery tells The Island Packet of Hilton Head that the agency's ruling that 69-year-old Sonny Graham committed suicide was preliminary. Graham was found in a utility building in his back yard with a gunshot wound to the throat.


Heart transplant recipient Sonny Graham, left, and his wife, Cheryl, pray during a moment of silence at a reunion of organ recipients and donor families, Dec. 1, 2006, at Hilton Head Regional Medical Center. Graham's transplant story has a twist; his transplanted heart belonged to Cheryl's first husband, who died unexpectedly. (AP/Jay Karr, The Island Packet)


"We won't say definitely it was a suicide," Lowery said.

Lowery said investigators are conducting interviews and waiting for results of Graham's toxicology report, which could take several weeks.

Sonny Graham lived on Hilton Head Island for about 40 years. He was director of the Heritage golf tournament from 1979 to 1983 and returned to the event every year to volunteer, friends said.

It was while he was living on Hilton Head that Graham got the heart transplant that saved his life. The 33-year-old donor, Terry Cottle, had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Summerville.


FULL story at link.

[TomInTib]

1. She reminds me of my most recent ex-girlfriend.

One husband and two lovers died unexpectedly, of natural causes, within the space of eighteen months.

I suppose I was lucky to get out alive.

All it cost me was my house, my car, my life's savings, and my dog.

I still miss that dog.

True story.

Tom

[havocmom]

2. hmmm, I know a woman like that...

string of engagements to well off gentlemen, each ending with a most peculiar death.

If you knew HER, you were indeed lucky to get out alive ;)

[soothsayer]

3. You're misreading this. The guy got a heart from a suicide case, and then

he himself (post transplant) killed himself, too. YOu read those stories about people who get transplants suddenly craving what turns out to have been the favorite food of the donor. Wild!

[REP]

4. I don't think so - she's 42 and has had 5 husbands, two of whom offed themselves

The last one to marry her and die also bought her a house. She's suing a former employer - a hospice. Wonder why.