Unimaginable

They lived in a generational home with a 71-year-old mother, her 44-year-old daughter, and her 19-year-old granddaughter. Sounds ideal to me until you get to the true crime then it turns into a sinister living environment.

The grandmother accused her daughter of fraudulently using her credit card. The daughter lashed out at her mother. She would not go to jail.

In the heat of the moment, when her mother confronted her daughter about using her credit card, she murdered her mother in cold blood. When she felt the severity of her actions, she decided she needed to “get rid of the DNA.”

The granddaughter heard her grandmother scream and asked her mother what was going on. Her mother told her something had fallen and not to go into her grandmother’s room.

After her mother left, the granddaughter went to check on her grandmother and found her deceased, stuffed in a storage bin with a bag over her head. The young woman confronted her mother, who asked her daughter for help to dispose of the grandmother’s body.

The two women cut up the body and tried to burn pieces on an outdoor grill. When the grill fire spread, a neighbor called the fire department. The fire crew didn’t realize they were looking at the dead woman’s remains on the grill.

When burning the body was no longer an option, they carried the pieces back into the home to cut even smaller and fill trash bags with the remains.

A friend of the grandmother’s hadn’t heard from her for a few days, so she called the local authorities for a welfare check on her friend. When the officers entered the home, they smelled human decomposition. In the home search, they found many parts of a human body later determined to be the grandmother.

They arrested both the daughter and the granddaughter. In a plea agreement to testify against her mother, the granddaughter pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder. The judge sentenced her to supervised probation for five years.

An Assistant State’s Attorney associated with the case said,

“This happens in movies and books, not in real life.”

Before the sentencing judge sentenced her to LIFE IN PRISON without the possibility of parole, she described the daughter’s actions as …

“Something so unimaginable.”

Source: Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center, Law & Crime, DC News, ABC & News—Virginia