Newton Falls woman found innocent for stabbing her grandmother

WARREN — Crystal Goodrich, the 30-year-old Leavittsburg woman who stabbed her grandmother last June, has been found innocent by reason of insanity and will be referred for mental health treatment.

Goodrich, who told police after the attack she dreamed about vampires and had been “waiting for 29 years” to kill her grandmother, stabbed Ruth V. Jenkins, 81, three times as a police officer rushed into Jenkins’ apartment to stop her.

Jenkins has since recovered.

Goodrich originally was charged attempted murder, felonious assault and kidnapping and went on trial today before Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court with no jury after being found competent to stand trial.

But Chris Becker, an assistant county prosecutor, and Roger Bauer, Goodrich’s attorney, agreed that a psychiatric evaluation done by Dr. Thomas Gazley of the Forensic Psychiatric Center in Austintown had found her to be insane at the time she committed the crimes.

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