Elderly Couple Facing Foreclosure Commits Suicide

In Prineville, Oregon, the Statesman Journal reports:

• [Last week], Crook County sheriff’s deputies went to the home east of Prineville after neighbors called with concerns that they were not answering their door, and their dogs were missing. They walked up the driveway and smelled gas. Inside the attached locked garage, a 1981 Cadillac Eldorado sat empty, its engine running. Then they entered the house. They found the bodies of Raymond Donaca, 71, and three golden retrievers. Upstairs they discovered the bodies of Deanna Donaca, 69, and a fourth dog. [...] Court records show that the couple lost the home in Central Oregon this summer following a court battle after more than a decade of financial trouble.

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See also, KTVZ-TV Channel 21 reports:

• Crook County couple fear losing home, kill selves (Four dogs also die as car left running; fumes sicken deputies),
• Prineville couple's suicide offers tragic lessons.

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