Husband Stabs Wife Battling Cancer To Death And Then Kills Himself By Walking Into Traffic

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A suburban Chicago community is mourning the loss of a teacher who was stabbed to death by her husband who also died when he stepped in front of oncoming traffic after the slaying.

Susan Cunningham, 47, was brutally murdered Tuesday in her Plainfield, Illinois home by her husband, 46-year-old Craig Cunningham, according to police.

NBC Chicago reported that officials were dispatched to the couple’s home for a welfare check after a concerned neighbor called police around 8pm.

The Plainfield North High School teacher, who had taken the year off due to battling cancer, was found with multiple stab wounds in the upstairs bedroom when officers entered the home.

Police said she was unresponsive and not breathing. She was transported to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois, where she was pronounced dead.

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Shortly after the teacher’s stabbing, police say her husband of a year and a half died after stepping in front of a semi-truck on Interstate 55 in Plainfield, NBC Chicago reported.

Police said that before taking his life, the woman’s husband called one of his relatives and admitted to killing her.

He also told the relative that he wouldn’t be going to jail because he was going to commit suicide, NBC Chicago reported.

Wednesday evening hundreds of students and faculty members gathered to remember the longtime health and physical education teacher at Plainfield North High School.

‘She touched all these people’s lives in one way shape or form and I know, we know, that they all touched her life as well so we’re grateful for that,’ her brother Dan Brown told NBC Chicago.

‘She just had the biggest heart,’ former student Emily Pedersen told the TV station. ‘She was there for everyone. She was shoulder to cry on if you needed.’

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