On This Day in Weird, January 9...
2007: British author/artist Richard Horne dies at his home Burra,
Scotland, in a bizarre assisted suicide pact with wife Mandy, who suffered from
multiple sclerosis. Among his several books, written at "Harry
Horse," Horne published the illustrated children's book Ogopogo, My Journey with
the Loch Ness Monster in 1983. While some newspapers described the deaths
as a "Romeo and Juliet scene," on July 13 the Daily Mail claims
that Horne stabbed his wife thirty times before killing their dog Roo and other
pets, then stabbed himself until he also bled to death. Two years later, after
interviewing Horne's relatives, actor Tam Dean Burn called the Daily's Mail's
description "a cruel distortion." Horne was 47 years old.
Harry Horne with Roo
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