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Woman Woke Up from 2-Year Coma and Named Her Brother as the Attacker: Sheriff
Law and Crime ^ | Jul 17th, 2022, | ALBERTO LUPERON

Posted on 07/17/2022 12:41:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Authorities initially thought Wanda was dead.

“I wouldn’t have wagered a nickel for her life that morning,” Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger said Friday, according to WCHS. “She was in that bad of shape. Quite honestly, she was unconscious, circling the drain medically. Massive, massive amounts of head trauma, consistent with some sort of machete or hatchet-type injury.”

The case was immediately a mystery.

“I had my windows open in my home, and we never heard one thing,” Eileen told WTAP at the time.

Mellinger said Friday they originally had little in the way of evidence. They still did not have the weapon.

Investigators considered her brother Daniel as a suspect early on, but they did not immediately have enough evidence for charges, according to court documents obtained by WCHS.

That changed after Wanda woke up. Despite severe brain damage, she could still identify Daniel as her attacker when investigators visited her care home in Wetzel County, authorities said in the MetroNews report.

(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: albertoluperon; coma; jacksoncounty; parkersburg; rossmellinger; westvirginia; wva
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To: algore

When a person awakens from a coma a neurologist sees them, does studies. One obvious study is she speaks within normal limits. They arrested the brother, I’m sure it was not on her word.


21 posted on 07/17/2022 2:06:51 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: algore

The Covid booster shot is amazing medicine.... Hail Fauci


22 posted on 07/17/2022 2:16:24 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Paleo Conservative

No trial? Could be a bad interviewer from the cops. The woman has brain damage.


23 posted on 07/17/2022 2:36:08 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: HighSierra5
And she’s probably shocked that Joek Braindead is president.

And she will be even more shocked when she finds out gas is over $5 a gallon, when it was only $2.25 when before the lights went out.

24 posted on 07/17/2022 2:50:15 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: Hot Tabasco

<LOL, I am defending the coma patient you jerk.


25 posted on 07/17/2022 3:09:14 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: BenLurkin

Wanda Palmer, Daniel Palmer

26 posted on 07/17/2022 5:16:48 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The “time out” generation didn’t produce as good a result as the @#$whoopin' generation. --Bob434)
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To: BenLurkin
Daniel resisted arrest:


27 posted on 07/17/2022 5:23:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The “time out” generation didn’t produce as good a result as the @#$whoopin' generation. --Bob434)
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To: j.argese

“I wasn’t not aware of a thing going on in the world.

🤔🤔🤔🤔


28 posted on 07/17/2022 5:35:19 PM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: moovova

The last thing she remembered before the attack is the first thing she spoke of. Just took awhile to come around. But to her, it’s a blink of an eye.


29 posted on 07/17/2022 6:43:33 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Don’t you just hate that?

/s


30 posted on 07/17/2022 6:44:48 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: for-q-clinton
No trial? Could be a bad interviewer from the cops. The woman has brain damage.

Give him a fair trial, then sentence him to life in prison.

31 posted on 07/17/2022 8:45:26 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: j.argese
I was in a coma for 9 days because of hemorrhagic stroke. I wasn’t not aware of a thing going on in the world.

It's probably safe to say "Different strokes for different folks." Glad you came out of it relatively quickly FRiend. Life is so fragile.

32 posted on 07/18/2022 5:46:16 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Colorado Doug

No pun intended?? 😉


33 posted on 07/18/2022 6:16:43 PM PDT by dkGba
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