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Article: Summers couple lived, died together
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 16, 2009
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On Dec. 10 the Summers County DNR, acting on a tip from the mail
carrier, entered the rural homestead of John and Esther Moyer in Hix
and found two dead bodies in an outbuilding. A suicide note asked
the authorities to contact a local attorney David Ziegler to execute
their will.
On Nov. 15 the couple had posted a letter to the sheriff's
department in Roanoke, Va., asking them to fax a request for the
Summers County department to check on their condition without
mention of why. The busy officers did not respond.
That was the only foul-up in their otherwise perfectly executed
departure. They had willed their bodies to the West Virginia
Osteopathic School for teaching purposes, yet by the ...