An American woman who was the victim of a violent attack woke up from a two-year coma and was able to identify her attacker, who was none other than her brother, local police reported.
"Attacked, beaten and left for dead, Wanda Palmer is now awake to see the arrest of her attacker, her brother, Daniel Palmer," Jackson County law enforcement said Friday on Facebook. rural and mountainous West Virginia.
A major head trauma
Wanda Palmer, 51, was found bleeding at her home in Cottageville, a small town in the west of the county, in June 2020. "She had a very significant head trauma which could correspond to an injury caused by a machete or an ax" , Sheriff Ross Mellinger detailed to a local channel.
The police had believed her dead before realizing that she was breathing weakly.
The murder weapon having never been found, without telephone data, images of surveillance videos or eyewitnesses, the investigation has stalled for two years, said Ross Mellinger.
Unable to make full sentences but able to answer yes or no, Wanda Palmer accused her brother Daniel, 55, of attacking her.
Daniel Palmer has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.
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