LAS VEGAS (Court TV) — Months after a mother was allegedly beaten and killed in her own home, charges were filed against her suspected attacker. But the arrest may not have come to be had it not been for the hard work of the alleged victim’s daughter.
Leslie Hope Houston is seen in an undated photo. (Court TV)
Leslie Hope Houston, 46, was found dead at her home on Oct. 10, 2024. Her husband allegedly claimed that she had been drinking before she fell. But Houston’s daughter, Megan Tomlinson, wasn’t satisfied.
On Oct. 11, 2024, Tomlinson saw her mother in the ICU at the hospital. “I was so relieved,” she said as she recalled the incident during a CrimeCon panel with the mother of Gabby Petito on Saturday. “Thank God, she’s OK, she’s going to make it.” But a doctor quickly told her the prognosis was grim. “I remember a doctor came in and said, ‘She’s not coming out of this.’ And I just fell to the ground and I just cried.”…