Linda Joy McNeely was 52 when she died at her Bothell, Washington, home on March 14, 2012. Suffering from a terminal brain tumor that had left her blind, unable to speak, with severe balance and cognitive decline, she endured constant pain and loss of independence. She had sought legal assisted suicide under Washington’s Death with Dignity law but was deemed ineligible because of her cognitive deterioration.

According to reports, Linda repeatedly asked her husband, Donald McNeely, to end her life. On March 14 he sat with her for about two hours holding a gun and then shot her once in the chest. He called 911 and told dispatchers that he had killed his wife because her suffering was unbearable. Deputies found Linda on the couch covered by a blanket.

Donald McNeely was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He pleaded guilty; the judge sentenced him to two years in prison after the couple’s adult children wrote letters describing the toll the illness took on their mother and calling the act a mercy killing.

Does anyone have information about Linda or the family that could shed light on her last months or the events that led to that day?