A middle-aged Georgia woman has been charged with killing her elderly fiancé, Hall County authorities said. Sheriff’s deputies said the woman did not get rid of his body. Instead, they said, she lived with it.
Investigators did not say anything about a motive, but they said 82-year-old Leroy Cramer was discovered dead in his home on June 7, after his stepdaughter filed a missing person’s report.
Deputies performed a welfare check and a woman, who they identify as the victim’s fiancé, 45-year-old Tabitha Wood, came to the door.
“Ms. Wood told them that her fiancé died. He died in April and she had been living with the body ever since,” Hall County sheriff’s spokesperson B.J. Williams said.
“She had him in the house with her for over two months and I don’t know–‘to each their own,’ but I just think ‘what does a 45-year-old do with an 82-year-old,'” neighbors, who didn’t want to be identified said Monday.
Investigators said they interrogated Wood for days and an autopsy revealed Mr. Cramer died of blunt and sharp force trauma.
Wood faces multiple charges including felony murder, aggravated assault and concealing a death. She is being held in Hall County jail without bond.
