1.0link114746<![CDATA[Mortgage Crisis Suicide? Wife and Mother on Verge of Losing Home Kills Herself]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/mortgage-crisis-suicide-w_b_114746.htmlFor many months I have been reporting on the surge in suicides among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Now another grim phenomenon is rearing its head: the suicide of homeowners who have lost their homes during the mortgage crisis.
Police in Taunton, Mass., report today that Carlene Balderrama, 53, a wife and mother, shot herself to death Tuesday afternoon -- 90 minutes before her foreclosed home was scheduled to be sold at auction. Balderrama faxed a letter to...