The two people accused of helping a 91-year-old Louisville woman kill herself with nitrogen gas in February 2024 didn’t appear to follow the law, a legal expert said of the first prosecution of its kind in Colorado since the state’s medical aid in dying law went into effect.
Kim Roller, 70, and David Norton, 68, were indicted by a Boulder County grand jury Jan. 8 and charged with manslaughter by aiding suicide. Kim Roller, the woman’s daughter, and Norton, the woman’s son-in-law, are accused of buying nitrogen gas and the accessories needed to help Kim Roller’s mother, Mildred “Milsy” Roller, use the gas to kill herself at Louisville’s The Lodge at Balfour.
Norton is the husband of another of Mildred’s daughters, according to the indictment…