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County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced Thursday the indictment of four people in connection with the alleged assisted suicide death of a Phoenix woman. The indictments were handed down from a grand jury on Tuesday. The four defendants are part of a group called Final Exit Network that according to their website, "serves people who are suffering from an intolerable condition." Frank Langsner of Scottsdale and Wye Hale-Rowe of Colorado, were indicted on charges of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit manslaughter. Also indicted for Conspiracy to commit manslaughter were Roberta Massey of New Jersey and Dr. Larry Egbert of Baltimore. According...

Phoenix, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- A member of the Final Exit Network assisted suicide ring that resulted in the deaths of multiple people from illegal assisted suicides has pleaded guilty in one case. Wye Hale-Rowe was one of the people allegedly involved in an assisted suicide case in Arizona.Last May, a county attorney in Phoenix, Andrew Thomas, announced that investigators from his office busted four people on murder charges in the 2005 "assisted suicide" death of a seriously mentally ill Phoenix woman.The four defendants -- who include retired Scottsdale resident Frank Langsner, a retired college professor -- were charged with...