SHE GAVE HER GRANDDAUGHTER A HOME… HER GRANDDAUGHTER GAVE HER A DEATH SENTENCE. nt
64-year-old Bertha Atkins had already raised her children.
She should’ve been enjoying retirement.
Instead, she became a mother all over again.
When her daughter couldn’t care for her child, Bertha stepped in without hesitation. She gave her granddaughter a home. A bed. Food. Stability. Protection. Love.
She sacrificed her golden years to give that little girl a chance.
And that chance ended in unimaginable betrayal.
In September 2003, Detroit grandmother Bertha Atkins was brutally murdered inside her own home by her 16-year-old granddaughter, Larketa Collier, and Collier’s 17-year-old girlfriend, Sharon Patterson.
The motive? Prosecutors said the teens were furious because Bertha and the girl’s mother disapproved of their relationship and had banned Patterson from the home.
The two repeatedly struck Bertha in the head with a claw hammer until she died.
Then they set the house on fire…
…leaving the woman who raised her granddaughter to die inside the home she had lovingly opened to her.
