Woman Wakes From 2 Year Coma & Identifies Her Brother as Attacker
A West Virginia woman miraculously emerged from a 2-year-long coma and identified her own brother as the attacker who beat her unconscious and left her clinging to life.
Wanda Palmer, of Jackson County, WV, was found unconscious in her home by lawn workers in June of 2020. According to reports, Palmer was savagely bludgeoned in the head with a machete or hatchet.
“When we got there, to be honest we thought she was dead,” Jackson County Sherriff Ross Mellenger said, according to the outlet.
Detectives were unable to identify Palmer’s attacker due to a lack of witnesses and evidence. They were shocked to receive a phone call from Palmer’s care facility saying that the victim had regained consciousness.
“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. There was no eye witnesses, nobody lived in the home, no surveillance footage, no cellphone records. There was virtually nothing there to move forward on,” Mellenger said, according to the outlet.
Despite suffering severe brain damage, Palmer could still communicate with detectives and told them her brother Daniel Palmer was the man who clobbered her comatose, the report said.
“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,” Mellenger said.
Daniel Palmer was reportedly arrested for attempted murder and malicious wounding.
