Mindy McCready

One day before Mindy McCready was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the singer sent a private investigator she had been working with a cryptic message. It was a single frame from a video they had been working on together of McCready singing a song called 'I'll See You Yesterday.'

The tumultuous life of singer Mindy McCready came to a tragic end Sunday evening when she died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in her Heber Springs, Arkansas home.

On Wednesday Mindy McCready made the news again.  Unfortunately it wasn't for a new record or for doing anything good for that matter.  She was accused of kidnapping her own 5 year old child.  But even that news is already being shadowed by the bomb that she dropped shortly after that hit headlines.

March 25 -- Ok...I did it yesterday so here we go.  We're 9 months away from Christmas!  That makes some people feel better.  Others feel more stressed.  Today in country music history, some huge country hits go to #1 on the charts, others are recorded, and a country legend passes away...