Suicidal Daughter's Last 'I Love You' to Mom and Dad Destroyed by Police

Chicago, IL — Chicago Police are apologizing for destroying the last "I love you" a suicidal daughter left for her mom and dad.

Nicole Porter took her own life on Feb. 27, 2015, with a fatal dose of insulin.

“She was struggling a little bit with depression,” Terry Porter, her mother, told CBS Chicago's Mai Martinez. “She was seeing a therapist.”

Within three months, Nicole's death was ruled a suicide. In August, the family began asking the detective for the notes.

In April 2016, police told them the file was available and the family could retrieve the notes, one of which read: “Dear Mom and Dad, I love you guys so much. I'm very sorry to put you both through this. I couldn't have asked for better parents, and I know this isn't fair ... please don't blame yourself or anyone else.”

But when the Porters went to get the notes, the detective told them the notes had been accidentally destroyed.

“It was the last ‘I love you’ she ever said to us. It’s the last physical thing she ever left for us. They’re a part of her that she gave to us in the last hours of her life," her mom said. "It was like everything was ripped right open again."

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