TAMPA, Fla. — Authorities have arrested a 75-year-old Florida man after an autopsy revealed his bedridden wife died from severe dehydration and malnourishment. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials said in a news release Harold Earl Allen was arrested Monday. He’s being held in the death of his 75-year-old wife Karen Allen, who weighed just 68 pounds when she died in her bed Jan. 6. An autopsy found she died of a combination of severe dehydration, malnourishment and thrombosis in the veins of her legs. Allen told investigators she last ate the day before she died and she’d not been to a doctor in five years.

Source: National Post August 15, 2017 13:07 UTC