Great-grandmother beaten, burned in her home dies weeks after attack (Georgia)

WSB TV ^ | August 29, 2016 | Nicole Carr

[Perseverando]

MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga. - An elderly woman who was beaten and burned inside her Meriwether County home has died weeks after the attack, the county's coroner confirmed to Channel 2 Action News.

Dorothy Dow, 83, was lying in her bed when three men and a woman kicked in her back door and attacked her in early August, according to police.

"These suspects began to demand money from Miss Dow. She pleaded with them that she didn't have any money. They began to brutally beat her,” Sheriff Chuck Smith said.

The family said Dow’s right and left arms were broken, and she had cuts and bruises all over her face.

The sheriff said the robbers then poured a flammable liquid on the victim and lit it.

Dow did everything she could to survive and call for help.

"She remembered she had a gallon of water she filled her breathing machine with. With those broken hands, she took that top off the gallon of water and poured it on her head to put out the flames,” said her daughter-in-law, Beth Dow.

Dorothy Dow then managed to crawl to another room to get her cellphone and call 911.

She was in the hospital in critical condition for weeks and died Saturday afternoon.

"That part's not real. We still can't put our hands around...that she was murdered," Dow said.

[TexasFreeper2009]

of of these might be eligible for free tuition at Georgetown now!

[Red in Blue PA]

I would gladly volunteer to shoot these people.

[PghBaldy]

It is cruel, they are demonic, it destroys DNA.

[Gaffer]

You forgot the colloquial Chlamydia

[sport]

I believe that they have already caught them.

[SaveFerris]

If I were on the jury, I would happily give them the death penalty. And I don’t say that lightly.

These monsters must never be let loose again on society.

[Bob]

There’s no speculation required when one of the perps is named “Cortavious” and another is “Shanquavious””. They ain’t Norwegians.

[JBW1949]

Nah...They were visiting their cousins, Lemonjelo and Orangjelo...

[ilovesarah2012]

They caught them.

[caww]

It's 'ALWAYS' about the money with these thugs...doesn't matter if for drugs or what they believe they are entitled to... they won't/can't earn it so feel they are owed one way or another....even from family members..........It's a 'take it it's mine' generation today.

To them it's not "stealing" it's an "opportunity owed".

[Perseverando]

You must have read the article. They are in jail.

You must not have read the article. They are in jail.

Oops!

[Ciexyz]

Very sad.

[Gaffer]

I am never, NEVER more than an arm’s reach from a condition one weapon in my home. It can quickly go to condition zero.

[M Kehoe]

Hopefully tried, convicted, sentenced and hung.

5.56mm

[caww]

No national debate...just arrest and prosecute as the criminal murders the are. It’s not like the didn’t know what the were doing...”Black live ‘choices’ matter”....they still don’t get that message.

[caww]

The death penalty should be reinstated in every state.....and only one appeal period.

[Gaffer]

I guess they went to see little cousin La-Sha (the dash don’t be silent) then....

[Nifster]

Yes indeed

Wasn’t that Ivan Allen?

[Gaffer]

Sister on the right need some Nair right away.

[ANKE69]

I don’t think Meriwether County is even near Atlanta. Closer to Columbus.