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Bill Chappell

Emerging from a 2-year coma, a West Virginia woman says her brother attacked her

Wanda Palmer spent two years in a coma, but she recently emerged and identified her brother as the person who viciously attacked her in 2020. (Jackson County Sheriff's Department)

Two years after a vicious attack sent her into a coma, a woman in West Virginia has regained consciousness — and she gave sheriff's deputies vital information that led to the arrest of her brother.

Wanda Palmer barely survived the ordeal in June 2020, when an assailant used what was believed to be a machete or hatchet to attack her in her home near Cottageville, some 45 miles north of Charleston.

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