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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Madeline Sherratt

Daughter facing murder charges after injecting Alzheimer’s-stricken mother with morphine, cops say

Rachel Elaine Waters (right) administered a lethal dose of unprescribed morphine on July 12, 2023, while her mother, 74-year-old Marsha Sprayberry Foster (left) had been at Marshall Pines Assisted Living and Memory Care - (Starling Funeral Home/Facebook)

A Georgia native is due to surrender to authorities in the Peach State after she was accused of administering a lethal dose of morphine to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother.

Rachel Elaine Waters, 41, who now lives in the Sunnyside section of New York City, is expected to surrender this week after being indicted on malice murder and felony murder charges for the death of 74-year-old Marsha Sprayberry Foster in July 2023, Columbia County Major Steve Morris told The Independent.

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