October 30, 2024
At first glance, the story seemed sadly all too familiar: a couple found, dead, in their home. The wife shot by her husband; the husband, dead by his own hand.
According to a press release from the Vermont State Police, this is what troopers found at a home in Newfane, in southeastern Vermont.
There was a little more to the story, however.
The two were Blake Prescott, 91, and his wife Helen, 88. And, as the press release added, “the Prescott family asked the Vermont State Police to tell the public that Blake and Helen shared a lifetime of love and commitment to each other.” Specifically, the family said, “As a devoted couple of more than 70 years, who had recently experienced precipitously declining health, they chose to die together as they’d lived together.”