A 54-year-old Florida woman told police she killed an Otsego County couple because they “tortured” her by feeding her “cookies with green mothballs in them.”
Linda Sue Anderson, 54, is accused of shooting to death Robert Goerlich, 70, and his wife, Shirley Goerlich, 69, on Thursday night as the couple sat watching television at their winter home in Port Orange, Fla. Anderson was arraigned Friday night on two counts of first-degree murder and remains in jail without bail, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.
“It’s like a bad dream that you just really don’t think happened,” said Shirley Goerlich’s sister, Beverly Pierce of Unadilla.
The News-Journal reported that when Anderson was arrested Thursday night, she told police: “I hate them; they have been torturing me. They make me cookies with green mothballs in them and I get sick.”….
In 1994, Shirley Goerlich won a national award for excellence in writing and publishing from the Connecticut Society of Genealogists for her book, Genealogy: A Practical Research Guide.
From the April 08, 2006 edition of the Press & Sun-Bulletin.
Order Shirley’s book here: Genealogy: A practical research guide
