A woman in Eaton, Ohio took her 93-year-old grandmother to a doctor’s appointment on November 15. The physician advised her to put her grandmother in a nursing home because she couldn’t be left alone and needed more care.

After the doctor’s appointment, the two went to the home they shared, and the granddaughter, apparently stressed over the impossibility of placing her grandmother in a nursing home, due to the costs, decided to kill her grandmother instead. 

Eaton, Ohio police responded to a 911 call to the 300 block of East Somers Street at around 6 pm and found Alice Methany, 93, dead in her bathtub.

Heidi Methany, 35, had made an appearance at the Sheriff’s office after the murder and had admitted that she drowned her grandmother in a kitchen sink and to make sure the deed was done, she submerged her in the bathtub.

Eaton Police Chief Steve Hurd confirmed to reporters that Heidi Methany had confessed to the murder.

Heidi Methany told the Sheriff’s office that when the two arrived back at the apartment after the doctor’s appointment, she grabbed her grandmother while she was washing the dishes, forced her head under the open faucet, and kept it there until, in her words, “she stopped blowing bubbles.” She then filled the bathtub and submerged the woman under the water for another 15 minutes until she was sure she had stopped breathing. 

After the killing, she took a walk to the Sheriff’s office and turned herself in.

When asked what events led up to the drowning, Heidi Matheny said, “Nothing special. It was like any other day.”

Heidi Methany is charged with murder and is being held in a Preble County jail on $500,000 bail.