75yr old man kills 13yr kid

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46. It would not.

But it would explain the paranoid behavior. When my grandmother lived with me, she was in the middle stages of dementia. The police were regular visitors whenever she couldn't find something or when I left the house briefly. Fortunately, they had a good sense of humor, because she would have had them believe:

1. Wild animals were entering our home and taking her china.
2. I left her alone for weeks at a time with no food or water.
3. My 3-year-old daughter was stealing her wig collection for her own use.
4. A distant cousin was defrauding her bank account and conspiring to steal her Hummel collection (I sent the Hummels to the cousin after she died).

Funny, in all that time, she never forgot how to use the telephone or how to call the police.

The local police flagged our address and phone number as a home with a memory-impaired person, and they were unerringly patient and polite.