Name: Kathleen A. White-Grangruth.
Died: April 17, 2018.
Age at death: 61.
Cause of death: Burns; smoke inhalation.
Location: Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Disability: Dementia, schizophrenia, mobility impaired (wheelchair user after hip injury).
Details:
Kathleen’s husband had been charged with assaulting her three times over twelve years. Tired of caring for her and having had a fight with her, he killed her by dousing her in gasoline and setting her on fire.
She was a retired Army nurse who spent her career at at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii.
Case status:
Delano Grangruth (Husband), pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, arson of an occupied dwelling and arson of real personal property; sentenced to 60 to 130 years in prison.
Source:
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