It has taken all of two weeks, but Cindy and Duane Stellner have finally accepted that their 20-year-old daughter, Sarah, is dead. What they haven’t come to terms with is the probable cause of death: a heroin overdose.
“We knew she was partying, of course, because 95 percent of the college kids in Madison do that,” Cindy Stellner said in a phone interview from the family’s home in Gays Mills, a small farm community about 15 miles east of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin.
But heroin?