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Woman Commits Suicide Before Foreclosure

HeadlineJul 24, 2008

Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, a fifty-three-year-old woman has committed suicide just hours before her home was to be foreclosed. On Tuesday, Carlene Balderrama faxed a suicide note to her mortgage company informing them she would kill herself by the time the auction for her home was set to begin later that day. Her body was found just one hour after she sent the fax. In another suicide note, Balderrama told her husband and son to use her life insurance money to pay off the mortgage.

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