Man, 91, charged with strangling wife with Alzheimer's disease

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BY TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Benno Zoch, who was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation in Ann Arbor today, has no recollection of the Thanksgiving Day death of his wife, Taimi Zoch, 87, his court-appointed lawyer said.


“He’s upset with the loss,” Michael West said. He interviewed Zoch at Port Huron Hospital before Zoch's bedside arraignment Tuesday afternoon. “He knows that she’s dead because people have told him she’s dead. But he doesn’t know how she died.


“On the surface, he’s a very pleasant 91-year-old man,” West added. “(He says) that he loved her — and that....read the whole story

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