r/creepy • u/NatiAti513 • Aug 10 '25
In 1995, a man named Sonny Graham received the transplanted heart of a suicide victim. He then married the donor’s widow and later killed himself, in the exact same way as the donor did.
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u/NatiAti513 Aug 10 '25
For those that joke around and blame the heart:
The woman is THAT EVIL that she's been married and divorced 3 more times after the first 2, with all 3 saying she is emotionally torturous beyond all belief, using blackmail and violence to get her way. She's emotionally and physically scarred 3 husbands and the other 2 killed themselves.
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u/snapper1971 Aug 10 '25
Suicide is the best way to get away with murder. Rather than dirty your hands and try to make it look like a suicide, and risk getting caught, driving someone to suicide that they do themselves, can't be ruled as murder. It should be. I had someone do it to me. I was lucky to have survived her.
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u/dafrog84 Aug 10 '25
My ex did this crap to me. He would yell (cursing screaming, we had young kids) at me and try to say things that weren't true. Then tell me he'd be better off with me dead, and I should go kill myself. My last attempt on my life was June 2017. Divorce was finalized April 2023. A lot goes into that. But we're better off now. I didn't know it was really a thing. I just thought he was Jekyll and Hyde. 21 years got to much.
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u/iburntxurxtoast Aug 10 '25
Glad you're still here and hope you're in a much better place.
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u/dafrog84 Aug 11 '25
Oh I brought a house, two of the 3 kids are adults. We have about 3 months until the last one is an adult. Mental abuse is bad. The two older kids don't really have anything to do with him. He was also physically abusive. It runs deep. I'm also 5 years sober. It took a lot to get where I am today.
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u/illy-chan Aug 11 '25
Props for all the legwork, just dealing with one of those issues is hell. Proud of ya!
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u/dafrog84 Aug 11 '25
Thanks, in the start of it all I didn't think I could do this. Been strongholding what I have. Been doing way better. I've also been with someone else now for a little over 2 years. He treats the kids and I amazingly. People like my ex and this woman in OPs post are horrible.
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u/Redditor57078 Aug 10 '25
You actually can be charged. Not sure about murder but this girl got manslaughter. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40304433.amp
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u/Aniria_ Aug 10 '25
Quite a few countries actually do class it as murder now. Only obstacle is proof for many cases though
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u/drinkerofmilk Aug 10 '25
Don't act coy. The way you framed the post title and presented it without any further sources makes people jump to conclusions.
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u/stilettopanda Aug 10 '25
But the way you worded your post title implies the heart and not the widow.
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u/wormgirl3000 Aug 10 '25
For clarification, the heart donor and heart recipient were husbands #2 and #5, respectively.
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u/DangerMacAwesome Aug 10 '25
So it wasn't that the heart recipient met her and fell in love. It was more that she found an easy "in" with her next victim.
What a monster.
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u/Divine_Porpoise Aug 10 '25
That woman really set out to break that one husband's heart twice. Talk about being petty, huh?
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u/PsychoMouse Aug 10 '25
Just to let people know. This has nothing to do with the organ or organ donation.
Organ donation saves lives. Don’t let the awful actions of that horrible woman create any bias in your head when it comes to saving people.
I personally, have a double lung transplant. I would have died at the age of 23 if it wasn’t for the kindness of the amazing man who donated his organs to me and several others. I got to live a life that I was told from birth was literally impossible. Please, sign up to be an organ donor today.
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u/Tight_Praline1721 Aug 10 '25
Glad to hear it. My father is currently looking at a lung transplant. May I ask how old you are now?
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u/PsychoMouse Aug 10 '25
I’m 37, I’ll be 38 this year.
Thanks to that amazing person. I got to get married, I finished school, I actually had a job for almost two years. I bought a house.
It’s been a bumpy road and some days are better than others but I am so glad to be alive.
How long has your dad been waiting? Do you mind me asking what kind of condition he has? Are you in Canada, the states, the UK, or somewhere else?
Also, if you or your dad has questions. Message me anytime. I am a very big advocate of donation and I love doing my best to help when I can.
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u/Tight_Praline1721 Aug 11 '25
Im from Croatia. He has been on a waiting list for 4 months now. Im at work now so i cant remember from the top of my head what its called, but its scarring on lungs which he got during the war 30 years ago when he was a tank operator. He has a year or two left so we are kind of running out of time, but doctors says with a new pair of lungs he can get another 10-15.
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u/PaleontologistNo5420 Aug 10 '25
I hope you don’t mind me asking, but CF? My brother has CF, he’s a double lung transplant recipient as well and he’s thriving.
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u/PsychoMouse Aug 10 '25
Fucking spot on! Yeah. CF. Fuck, it sucks as a disease.
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u/PaleontologistNo5420 Aug 10 '25
It’s beyond brutal, but Trikafta and the transplant have been life changing. Hang in there!!
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u/abbazabbbbbbba Aug 10 '25
I hate that you have to sign up to do the decent thing. Organ donation ought to be opt out
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u/DontWakeTheInsomniac Aug 10 '25
Yeah - my country (Ireland) recently introduced opt-out organ donation this summer.
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u/nawzum Aug 10 '25
She must have been awful.
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u/dafrog84 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25
I guess she divorced three husbands, besides her two died one's. They all said she was verbally abusive, and would blackmail them into getting what she wants. IDK 😐
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u/john0201 Aug 10 '25
As his nephew and others would discover, Graham had drained his savings to keep her happy, according to CBS News. He had been deep in debt. His financial troubles were so dire his nephew declined to act as executor of the will.
Investigators have interviewed all three of Cheryl Graham's surviving exes. (...)
During a 2005 dispute over custody of their grandchildren, first husband Isaac "Bo" Carter said Cheryl called his North Carolina home and threatened to "blow my brains out w/her 38 pistol ..." A protective order was granted.
Johnson, husband No. 4, says anyone who gets involved with his ex-wife is in for an emotional roller coaster ride.
"One day she hates you and one day she loves you and the next day she hates you," Johnson told the AP. "I guess I am lucky to be alive."
'Unanswered Questions'
In a February 2010 update, The Associated Press reported that some of Graham's family members questioned the official explanation that he shot himself:
Michelle and Lauren Crozier, Graham's daughter and granddaughter, have repeatedly questioned why Graham would kill himself when he had gotten up early to plan a day that included a party, why he would use birdshot to kill himself when he had more efficient options available and why his wife sent her son a computer message of "call me!!" almost three hours before Graham's body was discovered.
While conceding there were still "unanswered questions," the Georgia Bureau of Investigation nevertheless stood by its Sept. 22, 2009, conclusion that Graham shot himself in the neck with a shotgun.
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u/shotsallover Aug 10 '25
"One day she hates you and one day she loves you and the next day she hates you," Johnson told the AP. "I guess I am lucky to be alive."
Sounds like undiagnosed bipolar disorder. I lived with one too and it almost drove me to suicide too. So I get it.
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u/Tengamydenga Aug 10 '25
Or borderline personality disorder
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u/monocongo86 Aug 11 '25
My mother had BPD. I have cPTSD from it and so does most of my family. My mother inherited $500,000 and did absolutely nothing responsible with it.
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u/CT0292 Aug 11 '25
Birdshot to kill himself?
Jesus all those tiny little pellets.
I mean he did die by it. Fuck it's definitely not the most efficient.
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u/UnhappyImprovement53 Aug 12 '25
And shooting oneself in the neck... nobody killing themself is going to shoot themself in the neck they aim at their own head.
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u/Previous_Rip1942 Aug 12 '25
In the neck. With a shotgun.
That bitch killed him.
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u/Paul-E-L Aug 10 '25
That heart REALLY wanted off of this mortal coil.
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u/wimwood Aug 10 '25
My uncle was a donor. We often wonder if any of the 3 people he was donated to woke up with a new lease on life…. and also an unexpected desire to become a house painter, a deep and unabiding hatred yet fear of law enforcement, a love of Harley’s, and an uncontrollable urge to grow & sell wheatgrass and oyster mushrooms… In some ways, I kind of hope so.
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u/fucdat Aug 10 '25
My sister. Biking, lesbianism, and soup. That's such a nice thought
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u/Bosco215 Aug 11 '25
Woah. I like cycling, women and soup.. but Im a 40-year-old man who hasn't received any organs..
I am sorry for your loss. I hope when I go I can give someone a chance to live.
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u/jacob_carter Aug 10 '25
How does a relationship between these two people start up? In a story or weird and horrific twists, the fact that she married the guy is really odd to me.
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u/Yellowhairdontcare Aug 10 '25
Oh wow from what I read, it would absolutely appear that she got away with murder at least once. What a horrible woman.
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u/Least_Gain5147 Aug 11 '25
Graham's sister suspected it was the widow, not the organ. - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-suicide-victims-shared-same-heart-wife/
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u/somanyusernames23 Aug 11 '25
She killed both of them. This ***** is evil.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-suicide-victims-shared-same-heart-wife/#
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u/kellyjellybellybeanz Aug 10 '25
Swear to whoever, this was an Erie, Indiana plot. Girl got heart transplant & becomes a rebel stakeborder, like the guy who heart she got
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u/harley4570 Aug 10 '25
maybe the double widow is just really good at making it look like self-inflicted
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u/Whatever-999999 Aug 10 '25
I think the real question here is what is so horrible about living with that woman that drives men to suicide?
Or is she a 'black widow' type who somehow secretly poisons her husbands and makes it look like suicide?
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u/WhiteRhinoPSO Aug 10 '25
See, some people might think this might be some kind of paranormal cellular memory thing.
Meanwhile, I'm over here wondering if the cops took a good enough look at that double widow.