Authorities in two states are trying to determine why a woman may have driven with her mother's decaying body as a passenger from their Oklahoma home to Florida_ by way of North Carolina and Texas_ and then left the body in the car in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Flagler County sheriff's deputies found Melba Doshier's body Tuesday in the car parked at a Wal-Mart in Palm Coast after shoppers reported a bad smell coming from the vehicle.
The St. Johns County medical examiner on Wednesday said she died of natural causes at least five days before she was found.
Doshier's daughter Alicia, who officials said is in her mid-30s, has been questioned and hospitalized for psychiatric observation.
She was found in the store Tuesday, 13 hours after security cameras spotted her parking the car and entering the store at about midnight Monday.
Sheriff James Manfre said he wasn't planning to file charges.
"This is as strange and as bizarre a case as I've seen," Manfre told The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
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Flagler County sheriff's deputies found Melba Doshier's body Tuesday in the car parked at a Wal-Mart in Palm Coast after shoppers reported a bad smell coming from the vehicle.
The St. Johns County medical examiner on Wednesday said she died of natural causes at least five days before she was found.
Doshier's daughter Alicia, who officials said is in her mid-30s, has been questioned and hospitalized for psychiatric observation.
She was found in the store Tuesday, 13 hours after security cameras spotted her parking the car and entering the store at about midnight Monday.
Sheriff James Manfre said he wasn't planning to file charges.
"This is as strange and as bizarre a case as I've seen," Manfre told The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/8553074.htm
