Sentenced: Ohio Woman Drowns 93-Year-Old "Perfect Freaking Grandma” In Kitchen Sink

[Sugar Cookie]

A $500,000 bond has been set for a Preble County woman accused of drowning her 93-year-old grandmother.

Heidi Matheny, 35, was formally charged with one count of murder.

Eaton Police Chief Steve Hurd previously told News Center 7 that Heidi admitted to officers she drowned her grandmother, Alice Matheny.

A police report obtained through a News Center 7 public records request stated Heidi told police that she went behind her grandmother while she was doing dishes and she held her head in the sink “until she stopped blowing bubbles.”

Heidi told police she wasn’t sure if her grandmother was dead yet so she filled up the bathtub and held Alice under for 15 minutes until she stopped breathing and left her in the bathtub.

Afterward, Heidi walked from the apartment to the sheriff’s office.

Police asked Heidi what led up to the drowning and she said “nothing special, it was a day like any other day”, according to a police report.

Police arrived on the scene and found Alice deceased in the bathtub and her body was transported to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy.

$500,000 bond set for Eaton woman accused of drowning 93-year-old grandmother

A woman was arrested and booked in jail following the death of her 93-year-old grandmother.

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According to the Eaton Police Division, 35-year-old Heidi Matheny turned herself in to authorities, claiming that she had drowned her grandmother, 93-year-old Alice Matheny after she was told Alice Matheny needed to be in a nursing home.

The day before, Heidi Matheny reportedly brought her grandmother to a doctor’s appointment where she was told she needed to be in a nursing home, something Heidi Matheny said she could not afford.

According to the police report, Heidi Matheny allegedly told officers that it began as “a day like any other day.”

The police report explains Heidi said the doctor told her that he grandmother needed to be in a nursing home, but she could not afford it and her insurance would not cover it

After Heidi Matheny and Alice Matheny enjoyed some ice cream, Heidi Matheny allegedly walked up behind her grandmother while she was doing dishes and pushed her head into the sink, holding her there “until the bubbles stopped.” After this, Heidi Matheny told police she brought her grandmother to the bathtub to make sure she was dead.

“It’s nothing that she did,” Heidi Matheny said in the police interview,” She’s not – She’s the perfect freaking grandma.”

“According to the confession, she was just tired of taking care of a grandmother,” Eaton Police Division Chief Steven Hurd said.

Police say woman drowned grandmother, turned self in

Police arrested Matheny’s daughter, 35-year-old Heidi Matheny on a charge of murder, the release said. At this time, the police said they have no other suspects.

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[thuumpr]

Angel wings on her chest?

Absolutely evil!

 

[Symmachus]

That is evil. She may have justified killing her grandmother as a "merciful killing". The grandma was 93, and was going to die anyway, so why prolong the process?

But that is still murder. Alice still had some life in her, and deserved to live all of it until a natural end. Even if Heidi thought of her as the "perfect grandma", she has still committed the worst possible type of elder abuse.

 

[thuumpr]

That is evil. She may have justified killing her grandmother as a "merciful killing". The grandma was 93, and was going to die anyway, so why not prolong the process? That is still murder. Alice still had some life in her, and deserved to live all of it until a natural end. Even if Heidi thought of her as the "perfect grandma", she has still committed the worst possible type of elder abuse.

Hey! Granddaughter is going to die too. So let's get it over with now.

 

[Granmaw]

Wow, that's a rough looking 35! I bet she was living off Grandma's SSI.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A suburban Dayton woman pleaded guilty Friday morning to murdering her 93-year-old grandmother by drowning her in the kitchen sink, according to Preble County Sheriff Mike Simpson and a police report.

Heidi Matheny faces 15 years to life when she is sentenced.

Heidi Matheny’s arrest report has graphic details of her confession to an Eaton police detective.


She said she climbed out the window after killing her grandmother, walked to the jail and “turned herself in for killing her grandmother.”

“I asked her what happened,” the detective wrote. “She stated she held her head in the sink until she stopped blowing bubbles. Then she drug her to the couch. She started blowing bubbles so she put her in the bathtub until she stopped.”

She told the detective her grandmother’s doctor “needs to be in a nursing home but they cannot afford it.” She said her grandmother was stressed out and had panic attacks almost every day: “She shouldn’t have to live like that.”

She also told the detective, according to the report, “I just lost my s---. It’s nothing that she did. She’s not, she’s a perfect freaking grandma.”

She said she had grandmother by the hair and told the detective “she struggling, she was strong.”

The detective asked her if she was able to overpower the older woman even though she was struggling.

“She said yes,” the report states.

The detective asked Heidi Matheny what her thought process was at that time, “maybe we could stop this. She said ‘no, she wanted her to be at rest.’”

He clarified and asked her if it was her “intention to keep doing what you have been doing even though she could still be alive. She said yes.”

He also asked her if her grandmother was breathing or moving at that point.

Matheny responded, “No, just bubbles coming out.”

She explained then, the report continues, that she filled the bathtub and drug her grandmother into the bathroom. She removed her clothes, placed her in the bathtub and held her underwater for 15 minutes.

“She was face up so she was pushing her down by the chest. She said she kept floating back up to the top, so she rolled her over. Face down. Then she left. She went out through the window. She didn’t want the neighbors to see her.”

The detective asked her “if she planned this,” the report reads.

“She said no but they did discuss this before. Whenever her grandmother was manic she would tell Matheny to just kill her. She said we all say this.”

Dayton-area woman pleads guilty to drowning 93-year-old grandmother in sink

Heidi Matheny faces 15 years to life

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[Sugar Cookie]

Heidi Matheny, 35, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison in Preble County Common Pleas Court.

Matheny pleaded guilty to one count of murder on March 3.

‘Senseless and brutal;’ Woman who admitted to drowning 93-year-old grandmother sentenced to prison

An Eaton woman who previously admitted to killing her 93-year-old grandmother now knows how long she’ll be in jail.

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[BBBLUE77]

Holy shitballs! That's an ancient looking 35! More facecream please!!

 

[Freyja]

If there was anyone she should have been drowning in the kitchen sink, it should have been that worthless "dad" in a recent DD story who beat his 15-year-old son for not doing the dishes to his satisfaction, not her damn grandma!