In the adjournment request, Hubler said he learned from court staff that Matheny had been taken to the Cincinnati treatment center.
According to the Eaton police report, Matheny was placed on suicide watch at the time of her arrest. She at the arraignment said she did not “want to have a lawyer.”
Matheny walked into the Preble County sheriff’s office at around 5:55 p.m. on November 15 and said he wanted to get engaged. An Eaton police detective was called to speak to her after she said she had killed her grandmother, according to the report.
Eaton police officers went to an apartment in the 300 block of East Somers Street, where they found Alice Matheny dead, lying in a bathtub.
An autopsy revealed that Alice had a fractured sternum and rib, as well as multiple bruises on her neck and arms, according to court documents.
During an interview with police, Heidi Matheny said her grandmother was washing dishes in the kitchen sink when she came up behind her and stuck her head in the sink, according to an Eaton police report. She told police that she held her grandmother there until the bubbles stopped and then she moved her to the couch.
“She tought that [Alice] she may not be dead so she went to the bathroom and filled the tub,” the report said. “She drugs [Alice] to the bathroom and put her in the tub.
Matheny said she held her grandmother under water for 15 minutes in the bathtub, according to the police report. He demonstrated how he dominated her grandmother and grabbed her hair.
When asked by police what led up to the incident, he said “it was a day like any other,” according to the report. Matheny said that he visited her grandmother and had taken her out that day. They spent time together before the older woman went to the sink to do the dishes.
“I just lost my (expletive). It’s nothing she did. She is a perfect fucking grandma,” Matheny told the detective, according to the report.
Matheny said that the day before they went to the doctor, who allegedly said that her grandmother needed to be in a nursing home, but they couldn’t afford it.
She said the situation was a “nightmare.”
An officer asked: “So you decided to take his life?” according to the report. “She said, ‘That’s what I did.'”
Later, a detective asked her if she was irritated with her grandmother, and Matheny said she was “aggravated by the situation.”
“[Detective Brian] Carpenter asked her what her understanding was after she left the bathroom,” the report says. “She said that she is at peace.”
Staff writer Kristen Spicker contributed to this report.
