Randy Hurt found the unthinkable when he walked into his elderly parents' living room on Easter morning 2004: his mother lying dead on the couch, a blue shopping bag tied around her neck.

On the basement floor of their Roanoke County home, his father, Bill, was lying semiconscious and gasping for air, his hair matted with blood. He had suffocated his wife, Neva, and then tried to do the same to himself.

When that didn't work, he drank weedkiller and beat himself on the head with a hammer.

"You came too soon," he told his son.

The plan had been to put his wife -- in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's and so out of her mind that she could only grunt and moan -- out of her misery. Then, with his own demise, he would restore in death the love they had shared for 58 years.

Instead, Bill Hurt went to jail, depressed and deeply ashamed.

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