Sunday, May 31, 2009

Elderly man chokes girlfriend in argument over how to load dishwasher

An 82-year-old man Deltona was charged with battery by strangulation on Friday after sheriff's deputies said he beat his 74-year-old girlfriend unconscious for loading the dishwasher wrong.

A judge ruled that Joseph Strauch is to have no contact with his live-in girlfriend, Lillian Keller.

Keller called 911 at 12:56 a.m. Friday, saying that she was bleeding and had been beaten. She was taken to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City with bruises, cuts and redness around her neck.



According to the charging affidavit, Keller told deputies that her boyfriend interrupted her while she was loading dirty dishes into their dishwasher, put his hands around her neck and choked her until she lost consciousness.

"I thought, you know, I will go to bed and he will sober up and he'll be alright," Keller said. "He come into my bedroom, and boy listen, and he beat me and choked me. I thought I was going to die."

Keller also said that Strauch punched her and had abused her the night before. She said she is afraid he'll kill her if he gets out on bond.

With news video.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not being rude or anything but this really hurts me and he could never kill or hurt anything except when he was in war fighting for our country and I know that you are just writing what you heard but she had done stuff like that before and stolen from people to get money for herself and I just hate reading things like this still even though it's been a few years but I know him he have me a grandfather because I didn't have one so sorry for this comment but I just couldn't et it out of my head. Thank you for your time