LEBANON, Ind. (WTHR) - A woman profiled by Eyewitness News in a story about the heroin epidemic in Indiana died of an overdose.
We first met Cara Crane in Boone County in 2012. She said she first tried heroin on "Senior Skip Day" at Lebanon High School. She said she was immediately hooked.
"I would wake up, that is all I would think about until I went to sleep that night," she said five years ago.
Cara and another man we spoke with, John, entered rehab for their addiction, but a year later, Cara was in prison for burglary and theft. John faced more serious charges for dealing heroin.
This week, Cara's mother, Michelle, told Eyewitness News her daughter overdosed three times in three weeks. The final overdose, at an Indianapolis motel, killed her.
It is the ending Michelle feared and fought so hard to avoid for her daughter.
Cara Crane was just 23.
Visitation will be held from 5-9 p.m. Friday, April 28, at Strawmyer and Drury Mortuary at 2400 N. Lebanon St. in Lebanon. Services will be held at the mortuary Saturday at 11 a.m.
