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STERLING HEIGHTS
Woman reported psychological issues
Hospital released her before killings
October 25, 2007
BY CHRISTY ARBOSCELLO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A 61-year-old Sterling Heights woman thought she was experiencing what she called a "nervous breakdown" hours before she repeatedly slammed her 87-year-old mother's head on the garage floor and then took her own life, police said Wednesday.
A coworker of the daughter, Lois Radlick, found the bodies Monday in the garage on Tericrest Drive -- across the street and a few doors down from the scene of another murder-suicide three years ago.
Radlick had not shown up for work Oct. 17, the day she called police and told the officers who visited that she was having psychological problems.
"She voiced concerns about her own well-being -- that she might be having a nervous breakdown," Lt. Michael Reese said.
Fearing that she was suicidal, officers transported her to Henry Ford Macomb Hospital.
"From what I understand, she must have been seen by a physician and was released" that day, Reese said.
She later killed her mother, Elsie Coryell, and then committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning exuded from a car and motorcycle in the garage, police said.
Radlick lived alone with her mother who didn't have any known health problems. The women had troubles in their relationship, police said.
"The daughter thought the mother was basically controlling her life," said Reese, speaking about some reported financial troubles.
Suzanne Schut, of Henry Ford Macomb, said she couldn't comment specifically on a patient's treatment. Patients brought to the Mt. Clemens campus for psychological treatment are evaluated by a doctor and referred to either the in-patient or outpatient program, she said.
Contact CHRISTY OYAMA-ARBOSCELLO at 586-469-8085 or arboscello@freepress.com.
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