COPPELL, Texas -- The pastor of a suburban Dallas mayor who killed herself and apparently her daughter said during a funeral service for them that the mayor had acute financial difficulties.
Investigators found the bodies of Coppell Mayor Jayne Peters and 19-year-old Corinne Peters at their home Tuesday night. Authorities have said the mayor committed suicide and that her daughter s death was a homicide.
Rev. Dennis Wilkinson, pastor at First United Methodist Church in Coppell, said Friday, Jayne was a deeply troubled and, finally, desperate soul.
The Dallas Morning News reports that Wilkinson said at the service that 55-year-old Jayne Peters tried to hide the family s financial troubles from her daughter after the death of her husband in 2008.
