At 2:27 a.m., My Dad Called: “Your Sister-in-Law Beat Me with a Baseball Bat—But She Told Police I Attacked Her Because I’m Mentally Ill”

with felonious assault, unlawful restraint, and financial exploitation of an elderly person. Once investigators pulled her financial history, they found this wasn’t improvisation. She’d done something similar, quieter and never charged, to her own grandmother years earlier, “helping manage her finances” right up until the older woman passed away with continue reading …