On Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2014, 75-year-old Virginia Ginger Hutchins was found dead alongside her 65-year-old husband, Raymond Hutchins, in their Grand Marsh Bay home in Gouldsboro, Maine. A relative discovered the couple on the living room couch; a handgun recovered at the scene led Maine State Police detectives to conclude Raymond, who was Virginia’s full-time caregiver, shot her before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide.

Virginia had long suffered severe, degenerative arthritis. Multiple back surgeries, including placement of steel rods, failed to relieve her pain; she was frail, used a cane and portable oxygen, had recently retired from her job as an education technician, and had gone to the emergency room after a fall the day before, rating her pain as a 12 on a scale of 1 to 10. Raymond, a Vietnam War veteran who had health problems after Agent Orange exposure, was described by friends and family as devoted to caring for her. The couple had marked their 22nd wedding anniversary two days earlier.

No arrests were made; Raymond died at the scene. If anyone knew Virginia or the Hutchins family, or has information about the days leading up to November 27, please come forward.