The 91-year-old woman who got help with killing herself from her daughter and son-in-law did not have a terminal illness, and was not found incompetent, an unsealed grand jury indictment states.
In Colorado, only terminally ill patients with less than six months to live can get medical aid in dying. Investigators said that the woman’s family caused her to kill herself anyway. Advocates also said this case did not appear to follow Colorado’s aid-in-dying law.
Kim Roller, 70, and David Norton, 68, were indicted Jan. 8 and charged with manslaughter by aiding suicide, according to a Boulder County District Attorney’s Office press release. 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, kill herself…