Man convicted after scaring woman to death

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This unuaual story come coutesy of the Associated Press:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina
grandmother to death.
Multiple media outlets reported a federal jury found 21-year-old Larry Whitfield not guilty
of murder Friday in the death of Mary Parnell last year. But they did find him guilty of causing her death by kidnapping her, and that carries an automatic life sentence.
Prosecutors say Whitfield was looking for somewhere to hide after a failed bank robbery
attempt in Gastonia in September 2008 when he broke into Parnell's home.
Authorities say Whitfield never touched the grandmother, but she suffered a heart attack
when she saw him, and he didn't call for help.


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