NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (TCD) — A 71-year-old woman is facing multiple charges for allegedly attempting to kill her husband after he received a postcard from a woman he dated over 60 years ago.
Miami-Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records show Bertha Yalter was arrested Jan. 29 on charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery of a person 65 or older, and tampering. She is being held without bond.
According to the arrest report cited by WPLG-TV, North Miami Police Department officers were called to an apartment in a gated community and found the “extremely fragile” male victim with “several serious bruises and open lacerations.”
The victim also reportedly had “open bite marks that were bleeding.”
WPLG reports the man told police he got the postcard from the ex-girlfriend, and Yalter became upset about it. She allegedly tried smothering him with a pillow.
Police reportedly found video evidence of the attack and arrested Yalter at her apartment near Northwest 169th Street and 35th Avenue.