Beneath it all, however, the tale is even sadder than it is twisted. THEY call Adelaide the city of churches. But churches have graveyards full of skeletons. She was used to the pain of heroin withdrawal, that was nothing new. This unfamiliar pain was unbearable. It was the sting of conscience, deep in her soul, and it refused to die down. It was Remembrance Day , and Donna Lee Casagrande could no longer forget the sins she had committed.

An arrest has been made in connection with the recent grisly murders of Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson, a long term couple, in Texas. Autostraddle broke the story. James Larry Cosby , Britney's father, has been charged with two counts of tampering with evidence. It appears that the murders took place in his house, though the women's bodies were found outside of a convenience store dumpster.

Abdill got a job in the same doctor's office, and they eventually became life-partners. The couple started a successful property management business and were elected to the board of their church. They spent their spare time restoring their old Craftsman-style house and visiting Ellis's three-year-old granddaughter. They also worked as activists, fighting two Oregon state ballot initiatives in and ; Measure 9 intended to amend the state constitution to declare homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse," and Measure 19 intended to restrict library access for materials related to homosexuality. At the time of their murders, Ellis and Abdill had been together for 12 years.