A woman from West Virginia, USA, awoke from a two-year coma after being attacked and the identity of the attacker was unknown. Now, after regaining consciousness, the person charged with her attempted murder was none other than her brother.
Wanda Palmer was reportedly found unconscious in the front yard of her home by local city employees. “They came on the fourth day to mow the lawn, and saw you lying in a pool of blood,” said the victim’s mother, Eileen. Palmer was rushed to the hospital in critical condition as she suffered serious head injuries. She was breathing for several months but then began to breathe on her own but has not yet regained consciousness. After waking up from a coma last Friday, she identified her brother, Daniel Palmer, as a man who brutally attacked her in 2020 and West Virginia authorities announced the man’s arrest for attempted murder of his sister.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said Palmer’s 55-year-old brother had been arrested and charged with attempted murder and malicious assault in a 2020 incident after “wounding the woman and leaving her dead.” “I would not gamble that she would survive that morning. Her condition was extremely bad. She was unconscious, underwent severe head trauma after someone injured her with an ax,” the sheriff said after the arrest of Brother Palmer on Friday.
After finding the victim unconscious, her brother was already one of the suspects in the case but there was no possibility of indicting him when they did not have her testimony, confirming that her brother was the person who tried to kill her. On June 27, Palmer began mumbling words after waking up from the long coma. On July 12, police officers went to visit her at the hospital where she was being treated and questioned her as much as possible, regarding the incident. “When asked why her brother attacked her, she told us he ‘was inherently evil,'” according to the testimony submitted. It was further revealed that the man had a violent history.