A 74-year-old Cherokee County woman accused of killing her disabled husband in April 2018 has been indicted.
David Parton, 76, was found dead at his Ball Ground home after what was believed to be a fall, but authorities in October charged Betty Sue Parton in his death.
That was three months after the county medical examiner contacted sheriff’s detectives about the death being suspicious and concluding in the autopsy report that the cause was blunt force trauma.
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The investigation determined that “an unknown object was used as a deadly weapon,” according to Cherokee County sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Jay Baker.
She was indicted Wednesday on 19 charges, including felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, exploitation and intimidation of a disabled adult, family battery violence and cruelty to children in the third degree, according to records.
She remains in the Cherokee County jail without bond.
Betty Parton reported that her husband fell and hit his head in their home in the 3000 block of Ball Ground Road, police said at the time.
Detectives returned to search the home in September before arresting the wife, Baker said.
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