Posted by: Nick Norelli | April 7, 2008

Uncanny Coincidence

ABC News reports:

A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor’s widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Be sure to read the full story.  Here’s what I’m thinking.  Either there was a demon at work (which is my best theory at the moment), or the woman to whom both men were married was simply too unbearable to live with.  I can’t call it.

B”H

Responses

Or could it be that the woman is a serial killer who is good at making gunshot wounds look self-inflicted?

Peter: That is a plausible theory.

Are your two options necessarily unrelated?

Kevin: Not necessarily. ;)

It brings to mind Tobit and Sarah!

Kevin: I haven’t read Tobit in ages. Now it seems I must!

I should’ve said Tobias and Sarah, really. Tobit is the father of Tobias.

Here’s the gist:
For she had been married to seven husbands, and the wicked demon Asmodeus had killed each of them before they had been with her as is customary for wives. So the maid said to her, “You are the one who kills your husbands! See, you have already been married to seven husbands and have not borne the name of a single one of them.” (Tobit 3.8 NRSV)

The innocent, Sarah there, is also suspected, but also a victim.

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