West Virginia woman, 51, wakes up from a two-year coma and tells cops it was her BROTHER who put her there: He’s charged with attempted murder
- Daniel Palmer, 55, was charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding for allegedly bludgeoning his 51-year-old sister, Wanda, with a machete
- In June 2020, Wanda was found unconscious, covered in blood, and with massive head trauma at her house near Cottageville
- Investigators in the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office were shocked when they received a call from Wanda’s nursing home notifying them that she was awake
- Although her brother had been a person of interest during the investigation, police said there was not enough evidence to make an arrest
A West Virginia woman has woken up from a two-year coma and revealed her ‘mean’ brother was the culprit of the attack that almost killed her.
Daniel Palmer, 55, has been charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding for allegedly bludgeoning his 51-year-old sister, Wanda, with a machete.
In June 2020, Wanda was found unconscious, covered in blood, and with massive head trauma at her house near Cottageville.
Investigators in the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office were shocked when they received a call from Wanda’s nursing home notifying them that she was awake and speaking.
Although her brother had been a person of interest during the investigation, the police said there was not enough evidence to make an arrest.
‘From an investigator’s standpoint, this is about as rare as it gets. I think it’s a true testament to the perseverance and the strength of the victim herself,’ Sheriff Ross Mellenger told FOX.
In June 2020, Wanda was found unconscious, covered in blood, and with massive head trauma at her house near Cottageville
Daniel Palmer has been charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding for allegedly bludgeoning his sister, Wanda, with a machete
In a January 2019 Facebook post, Wanda referenced the reportedly strained relationship with her brother.
‘My brother Daniel why u trespassed on my mobile home n damage things which u have no right [to] for shame on u god I give u him to deal with,’ she wrote.
Mellenger said that while investigators suspected what had happened before the attack that left Wanda in a coma, they had not been able to make an arrest due to lack of evidence.
‘There was no eye witness, nobody lived in the home, no surveillance footage, no cellphone records,’ he told MetroNews.
‘There was virtually nothing there to move forward on.’
Although she sustained brain damage, Wanda was able to communicate with single words and when asked who had been the culprit of the attack she said it was her ‘mean’ brother
Although she sustained brain damage, she was able to communicate with single words and when asked who had been the culprit of the attack she said it was her ‘mean’ brother
But that changed last week when Wanda woke up from the coma, shocking staff at the facility she was being treated at.
Although she sustained brain damage, Wanda was able to communicate with single words and when asked who had been the culprit of the attack she said it was her ‘mean’ brother.
‘The key to the whole thing lay with the victim herself and with her unable to communicate we were left with nothing,’ Mellenger also told Metro News.
‘Now lo and behold two years later and boom, she’s awake and able to tell us exactly what happened.’
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