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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

Husband kills himself days after breakthrough in wife’s 25-year-old disappearance

Fox 23

A man whose wife disappeared in 1998 has died by suicide just as the cold case was getting renewed attention.

Jim Sweeten, 79, called police in Texas to say that he was going to take his own life. Law enforcement found him dead at his home at an RV park in Welasco, about five miles from the border with Mexico on Wednesday, according to Fox 23.

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