‘Mummified appearance’: Man starved his mother and stopped taking her to the doctor even though she was ‘literally skin and bones,’ police say

An Indiana antheral who was acting arsenic his aged mother’s caregiver was accused by constabulary of allegedly starving her to death.

Randy Halton, 51, was booked connected suspicion that helium fto his mother, Sandra Halton, go truthful malnourished by the clip she died that she was “literally tegument and bones,” according to court documents obtained by WXIN, a section Fox affiliate. Sandra Halton, whose property was not provided, was recovered dormant by her lad connected the greeting of Dec. 5, 2024. He called for assistance and officers responded to their location successful Greencastle, immoderate 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis, wherever they recovered Sandra Halton dormant successful her bedroom, having taken connected a “mummified appearance.”

According to the tribunal documents, Randy Halton told constabulary that his parent had suffered from respective wellness issues, though lone a thyroid contented was cited. The seemingly infirm pistillate was seemingly having issues with her fare and wasn’t eating, including the nighttime earlier her lad recovered her dead.

An autopsy determined her origin of decease was malnutrition. The study noted that Sandra Halton had nary coagulated nutrient successful her digestive strategy astatine the clip of her death. When a bandage was pulled from her tegument during the autopsy, her tegument seemingly came off.

Randy Halton told constabulary that helium had tried to get his mother to devour and portion earlier helping to get her into furniture astir 6 p.m. the time earlier she was recovered dead. He reportedly stated that helium had planned to instrumentality his parent to the infirmary successful the morning.

As the probe into Sandra Halton’s decease continued, detectives discovered that her doc had not heard from either her oregon her lad since February. Even astatine that time, her doc reportedly noted that she was malnourished and anemic, weighing successful astatine 105 pounds. According to the tribunal documents, the doc said that upon viewing Sandra Halton’s deceased body, it appeared that she showed “significant deterioration” since that February visit.

When Randy Halton was asked wherefore helium ne'er brought his parent backmost to the doctor, helium reportedly answered that “they had not called.”

Those who knew the Haltons besides reportedly believed that Randy Halton was trying to support his mother’s decease hidden. According to tribunal documents, the ex of a Halton comparative told constabulary that Randy Halton had told 1 household subordinate astir Sandra Halton’s death, but instructed them to “keep [their] f—ing rima shut.”

The comparative connected the receiving extremity of that bid told constabulary that they “didn’t recognize wherefore Randy didn’t telephone for help, and that helium didn’t person to attraction for Sandra alone.” According to tribunal documents, Randy Halton had been his mother’s caregiver for “several years.”

According to the documents, Randy Halton reportedly said that his parent “seemed fine” portion admitting, “I cognize she looked atrocious and horrible.”

Formal charges person not yet been filed against Randy Halton.

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