Caretaker charged with manslaughter in elderly Cape Girardeau woman's death

Sunday, January 15, 2012

A Patton, Mo., woman faces a manslaughter charge after an autopsy revealed that one of her home-health patients had ulcers and bedsores with maggots in the wounds when she died.

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