March 21, 2004

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  Woman charged with starving quadriplegic brother to death

  
  

  GLENSHAW, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Kimberly Loebig, 36, was arrested Tuesday on criminal homicide charges stemming from the death of her quadriplegic brother, 29-year-old Scott Thomas Olsen.

  
  

  Olsen, who was more than six feet tall, weighed 63 pounds, police said.

  
  

  Loebig told authorities she had fed her brother a food supplement through a tube and given him water the day before he died. An autopsy, however, found only digested blood in his stomach.

  
  

  Police found a cardboard box filled with unopened, rusting cans of a food supplement next to Olsen's bed, they said. According to a criminal complaint, Olsen also had sores on his body and insects crawling on him.

  
  

  Loebig, her brother's sole caretaker, stands to inherit $250,000 from her brother.

  
  

   

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