Deborah Gibson; Suicide By Stupid
March 28, 2008 by Morbid

Monroe, NC - After taking a short break, I am back and with a story from my neck of the woods. It involves a suicide pact made between three women, Linda Maples, 27, Jennifer Ashleigh McCord, 23, and her mother, Deborah McCord Gibson, 45. For an unknown reason at this time, they decided to kill each other at the home they lived in. The plan seemed to be that they were to use a gun to kill themselves, but found that they could not turn the gun on themselves. To solve this, they decided to just simply shoot each other. One of the women is now dead, and the other two are in jail.
Maples and McCord are charged with first-degree murder and felony conspiracy to commit murder. Police have released who shot who in a scene that could eventually be used in a Cohen Brothers movie.
- Gibson shot her daughter twice in the upper body
- McCord shot Maples in her upper body
- Maples shot Gibson
At some point, one of the ladies decided that she didn’t want to die after all and called 911 from a cell phone. “Please, three of us have been shot,” the woman told the operator. “I think she’s dying.”
When police arrived, they found Maples standing in the driveway, Gibson was dead in a bedroom and McCord was inside the garage. McCord and Maples were taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Union in Monroe and later taken to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte where they save people regardless of IQ levels.
The home they lived in is in a neighborhood of 100 homes valued from $245,000 to $400,000. Police had been to the home on a couple of domestic disturbance issues in the past, but Deborah Gibson’s husband, William Gibson, was not living at the house. All three of these women were under investigation in regards to prescription forgery, Maples pleading guilty to forging a prescription on Tuesday and receiving 18-months probation.























Comments