NRI doc 'kills' mother, to be charged
Cops filed a murder warrant against 29-year-old Dr M Balasubramanian.
A disoriented Indian woman found by police alongside a road in suburban Cincinnati was expected to be formally charged in the slaying of her mother upon her release from a hospital, police said.
Blue Ash police said they filed a murder warrant on Wednesday against Dr Malar Balasubramanian, 29, who was taken to a local hospital.
The paediatrician was being treated for possibly overmedicating herself and was impaired when police picked her up on the road about 7 am on Wednesday, said police Sgt Paul Hartinger.
Balasubramanian's mother had been reported missing after another daughter found what appeared to be an e-mailed suicide note. Authorities would not comment on the cause of death of the mother but said that Saroja Balasubramanian, 53, died in the family's home in suburban Blue Ash.
The Indian immigrant's body was found under a blanket in the back seat of a car parked in a lot in Blue Ash. The car was found after police were called to investigate a report of an injured person along the road. They found Malar Balasubramanian wearing a T-shirt and underwear and with dishevelled hair.
It was unclear how long the mother had been dead, but investigators think her body had been in the car at least a day. Police is yet to determine a motive in the case, but they think the daughter drove the car to the lot with her mother's body inside, said Hartinger. The body of the deceased was taken to the Hamilton County coroner's office for an autopsy.