comment: >
  
  And people say there's no good news...
context: Ending a saga that earned national headlines, a fugitive from Grants Pass accused of torturing a local woman and holding her captive is dead after a standoff with police at the scene of the original crime.
  Grants Pass Police Chief Warren Hensman said in a text at 10:38 p.m. that Benjamin Obadiah Foster “just passed at the hospital due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
  
  Good. Killing himself is light punishment, but it saves the women from testifying, the tax money it would cost convicting and housing him, and leaves no possibility of an early prison release. >
  
  Currently available under "Breaking News" on the local Grants Pass Daily Courier website. However the link may eventually disappear behind their paywall. >
  
  KOIN and I'm sure the other Portland stations will have articles about it, too >
  
  The turd has been flushed >
  
  Right? But ... Obadiah obladee...her life goes on.