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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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1 posted on 07/17/2022 12:41:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Life in prison. No parole!


2 posted on 07/17/2022 12:46:46 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: BenLurkin

My bet, mental illness.


3 posted on 07/17/2022 12:49:06 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: BenLurkin

Wanda named her attempted killer, but did she also know about
the Pay Wall?


4 posted on 07/17/2022 12:50:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Beowulf9

If i were the brother that would be my argument, mental illness on her part.

Her brain has not worked for several years an now suddenly she is fine?

Dream on


5 posted on 07/17/2022 12:53:56 PM PDT by algore
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To: BenLurkin

She’s woke now.


6 posted on 07/17/2022 12:55:29 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: algore

People who come out of comas tell of being aware of what is going obn around them, so your dumbass comment is, well, dumbass.


7 posted on 07/17/2022 12:57:28 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: algore
Her brain has not worked for several years an now suddenly she is fine?

Based on your Christian comment, I'm sure you would have approved of the care takers pulling the plug long ago.......

8 posted on 07/17/2022 1:00:01 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: BenLurkin

The brother thought he was Scot free until the deputies show up 2 years later.


9 posted on 07/17/2022 1:02:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Joe Biden, VOTUS. Vegetable of the United States.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lady had a looong memory, thank goodness.


10 posted on 07/17/2022 1:10:51 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Hot Tabasco

And in your imagination, where did you conclude the dumbass comment was ‘Christian’?


11 posted on 07/17/2022 1:13:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: BenLurkin

And she’s probably shocked that Joek Braindead is president.


12 posted on 07/17/2022 1:15:28 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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#9: "The brother thought he was Scot free until the deputies show up 2 years later."

There is truth to the old saw "the long arm of the law".

13 posted on 07/17/2022 1:15:37 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d say they’d need more evidence than her say so for a conviction.


14 posted on 07/17/2022 1:16:20 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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To: BenLurkin

If it is mental illness then so be it but if it is not mental illness then there is no mention of the ‘why’ in the article. The first thing I thought was, “Brother trying to silence incestuous rape.”


15 posted on 07/17/2022 1:35:53 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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To: HighSierra5

Maybe not. Take a look at the picture of the brother. I think he might be a Biden


16 posted on 07/17/2022 1:38:13 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MHGinTN; All

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.


17 posted on 07/17/2022 1:44:02 PM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: MHGinTN
where did you conclude the dumbass comment was ‘Christian’?

Maybe because my comment was sarcastic and his comment was antithetical to everything this site stands for?

Isn't this a Christian based website?

Maybe in the headline for this site:

Conservatives for God, Family, Country!

With that being said, this site has become far from Christian based as evidenced by the constant stream of hate filled comments on various threads.

And don't ask me to post them because you know damn well have seen the comments by hypocrites yourself...

18 posted on 07/17/2022 1:50:46 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: MHGinTN; algore
Her brain has not worked for several years an now suddenly she is fine?

Sounds to me that both of you are intent on disbelieving the account of a coma ridden person actually waking up.

Why and why does that scare you?

Would you have rather her family put her to death? WTF!

19 posted on 07/17/2022 1:58:33 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: BenLurkin

I believe her
Why lie?


20 posted on 07/17/2022 2:02:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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