A Florida daughter who helped her 97-year-old mother die by suicide allegedly told police she did so at the elderly woman’s request — and now she’s charged with first-degree murder.
Police did not buy the story Martha Jo Blake, 66, was selling to them after her mother, Patricia Blake, died.
Deputies with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office responded to Patricia’s Palm Beach home on the morning of Friday, December 26. Martha Jo, who had called 911, was there and told police that she last saw her mother alive the night before.
Then, the autopsy was performed, and Patricia’s death was determin...
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