Woman Accused of Scaring 71-Year-Old to Death
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PONTIAC, Mich. — A 40-year-old woman was charged with murder Tuesday for crashing a stolen car into a garage, breaking into the attached house and scaring a 71-year-old woman to death.
Gaye Crim Langley, 40, of Royal Oak, was being held without bail at Oakland County Jail, police said.
She was accused in the death of Kathryn Griffith of Troy, who was found dead at her home early Sunday, authorities said.
“Our theory is that she literally brought Mrs. Griffith to a state of such fright that it scared her into a heart attack,” Oakland County prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson said. Langley is charged with murder, breaking and entering an occupied dwelling, larceny and malicious destruction. The degree of murder will be specified after a preliminary hearing.
Police allege that Langley stole a car, drove to Griffith’s house and rammed through the garage door with enough force that it pushed a car inside through a brick wall. She then broke into the house by forcing open a door between the garage and the house, authorities said.
Langley was arrested in the home. Police could provide no motive for the incident.
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