Atlanta police want information about who killed a 69-year-old woman family members say suffered from dementia.
Police said a maintenance worker discovered a woman’s body at the Majestic Park apartments on DeLowe Drive in southwest Atlanta on May 18 inside an abandoned apartment.
They later identified the woman as Ola Mae Hart, who they say lived at a nearby complex.
“So either somebody lured her or somebody she knew,” daughter Sharron Hart told Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri.
Hart said her mother had dementia and had no reason to be at the abandoned building and would not have come alone.
Hart is married to Patrick Norman, the maintenance worker who made the awful discovery.
“We came across a female body,” Norman told Viteri. “We didn’t know who it was. It was really horrifying. I still have nightmares about it, because I was shocked about it and then to find out who it was.”
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Hart died from blunt force trauma to the head and was suffocated.
“An animal. That’s what the detective told me, it was like an animal did this,” Sharron Hart said.
Major Adam Lee III, with the Atlanta Police Department, said investigators are taking a look at previous crimes to check for anything to indicate this is not the first time a crime like this has happened.
Sharron Hart said her mother worked for decades for Grady Memorial Hospital as a surgical technician. A representative for the hospital confirmed Ola Mae Hart retired in 2007 after 36 years as an employee.
“How heartbreaking is it to think that these apartments are abandoned back here, and she probably was screaming, and nobody heard her,” Sharron Hart said.
Atlanta police want anybody with information about the case to contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.
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