Left for dead, Ada woman blames her grandson

 
BY JOHNNY JOHNSON
Published: April 30, 2009

ADA — Her eyes were still swollen shut from the beating, but sheriff’s deputy Heath Miller couldn’t miss the tears seeping through as the 60-year-old woman told him it was her grandson who beat her unconscious and left her to die in a pasture.

Daniel Lewis Whelchel , 20, confessed Monday that he wanted his grandmother dead because she treated him like a child, according to an arrest affidavit. He w...


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