An ear-piercing blast rang through the silent, still air, causing Sandy Nelson’s body to jolt to attention. Another person may have assumed it was a car backfiring or a neighbor testing a stray firework, but somewhere deep in Sandy’s gut, she knew this horrific noise was much more menacing.
Sandy sprang to her feet and bolted towards the driveway to check on her grown daughter, Jenny, but it was too late. Sandy had just lost her second child to suicide. In 1993, her teenage son, Sean, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and now (in April 2016), Jenny, who had long been battling clinical depression, perished in the same tragic manner.
