Recipient of suicide victim’s heart kills self 12 years later
Originally published April 6, 2008 at 12:00 am
After Terry Cottle killed himself more than 12 years ago, his heart beat on in Sonny Graham. Grateful for the transplant that saved his…
HILTON HEAD, S.C. — After Terry Cottle killed himself more than 12 years ago, his heart beat on in Sonny Graham.
Grateful for the transplant that saved his life, Graham, a former Hilton Head Island resident, wrote to thank the Cottle family. Through that correspondence, he met Cheryl Cottle, his donor’s widow. Then the unexpected happened — they fell in love and married.
Last week, the unexpected happened again, when Graham’s life ended the same way Terry Cottle’s did.
On Tuesday, Graham took his own life at his home in Vidalia, Ga. He was 69.
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He was found with a single gunshot wound to the throat, said Greg Harvey, a special agent working the case for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He was found in a utility building in his backyard and had used a shotgun, Harvey said.
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