WASHINGTON TWP., Montgomery County -- The 24-year-old granddaughter of a woman beaten to death in Washington Twp. was arrested Wednesday in what authorities believe was a homicidal attack fueled by a crack cocaine addiction.
Aisha Marie Sanders was taken into custody by the Ohio Highway Patrol on a back road just off Interstate 70 in Preble County, Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said at a news conference at sheriff?s headquarters in downtown Dayton.
Plummer said someone passing by noticed the woman asleep in her car, and called OSP. After running the car?s license plate, troopers arrested the woman shortly before 1 p.m.
Sanders gave detectives a full, written confession in the killing of Mary Muha, the sheriff said.
?The 86-year-old victim worked all of her life, and she gets killed by her granddaughter, whose life is taken over by crack,? Plummer said.
Detectives said Sanders had been living off and on in her grandmother?s house. ?She pretty much drained all the finances,? Plummer said. ?Apparently, she told detectives that crack had taken over her life.?
The sheriff said he thought Sanders went into a rage and beat the woman because there was no money for drugs. Investigators discovered that a television and a dog had been taken from the house.
Sanders told detectives she had been partying since Sunday morning, Plummer said.
The body of Muha was discovered at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday by her grandson when he went to her residence at 981 Sugarside Court to check on her, Plummer said.
?She had blunt force trauma to the head,? he said, noting that deputies had not established an exact time of death or a motive.
Plummer said Sanders had run out of gas and had run out of money. She told detectives she had let the dog loose sometime during her partying because she could no longer care for it.
Sanders is in the county jail, awaiting formal charges and an initial appearance. The county prosecutor?s office has not filed formal charges, but the case probably will be presented to that office by the end of the week.
It was the second attack in as many days on older women.
On Monday, neighbors found a 63-year-old woman semiconscious in her Jefferson Twp. home on Rossiter Drive. She had been beaten about the head and face by two armed men late Sunday or early Monday morning, sheriff?s Chief Deputy Scott Landis said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2290 or doug.page@coxinc.com.
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