A Florida woman has been accused of trying to kill her husband after he was sent a postcard from a woman he dated 60 years ago.
Bertha Yalter, 71, was arrested after police arrived on the scene in the Eastern Shores neighborhood of North Miami Beach to find her husband in an “extremely fragile” state and with “several serious bruises and open lacerations …as well as open bite marks that were bleeding,” according to an arrest report obtained by WTVJ.
The report added that police were responding to a call they received from a man who claimed his wife had tried to kill him at their home.
The man allegedly told officers the attack happened after he received a postcard from a woman he dated before marrying his wife in the 1960s.
It is unclear what the postcard said, however, the man said it greatly angered Ms Yalter, who tried to smother him with a pillow, police allege.
North Miami Beach Police Department said Ms Yalter and her husband had been married for nearly 52 years when the incident occurred.