Shock update as woman wakes from two-year coma and her BROTHER is arrested on attempted murder charges | The Sun
A WOMAN who was in a coma for two years after being brutally bludgeoned has made a "miracle" recovery – and identified her brother as her attacker.
Wanda Palmer was horrifically beaten in the head with a machete or hatchet outside her home in Cottageville, West Virginia, in June 2020.
She was found with severe head injuries by lawn care workers and remained in a coma before extraordinarily waking up.
Her mother Eileen Palmer said: "They came that morning to mow her grass and found her in a pool of blood."
Police officers "thought she was dead" when they arrived at the scene but struggled to identify a suspect.
Jackson County Sherriff Ross Mellenger explained: "We had a little bit of an idea what happened, but the problem was with the nuts and bolts of the case we had nothing to go on.
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"There was no eyewitnesses, nobody lived in the home, no surveillance footage, no cellphone records.
"There was virtually nothing there to move forward on."
Two years on, cops had still not been able to find Wanda's attacker – until she regained consciousness last week.
Despite suffering severe brain damage, Wanda managed to communicate with cops to accuse her brother Daniel Palmer of being the assailant.
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According to Fox11, Wanda described her brother as "mean" when talking to detectives in her nursing home where she was receiving care.
Mellegner continued: ""From an investigator's standpoint, this is about as rare as it gets.
The keys to the whole thing lay with the victim herself and with her unable to communicate we were left with nothing.
"Now lo and behold two years later and boom, she’s awake and able to tell us exactly what happened..
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Daniel Palmer was reportedly arrested for attempted murder and malicious wounding.
Daniel Palmer was reportedly arrested in relation to the incident for attempted murder and malicious wounding.
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