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To: Lost1 who wrote (2076)	7/16/2002 1:17:17 PM
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Woman accused of sitting on mom, smothering her By Claire Osborn AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, July 16, 2002 A Bastrop County woman has been charged with killing her mother by sitting on her. Linda Akin, 28, is accused of sitting on Catherine Akin's back and smothering her into the floor. Linda Akin weighs nearly 350 pounds and has a history of psychological problems, said Bastrop County sheriff's Chief Deputy Ronnie Duncan. The incident happened July 8, apparently during an argument in the Akins' house in Cedar Creek, in the western part of Bastrop County. Linda Akin called 911 twice that day about 1 p.m. "She said something to the effect that she was with the CIA and had got the person who kidnapped her," Duncan said. When deputies arrived, the woman showed them the body of her 48-year-old mother on the back porch. She told deputies that her mother had been holding her hostage, Duncan said. Linda Akin has been a mental health patient in the past, he said, but the sheriff's department had never been called to the house for a disturbance. "Apparently, she had been hallucinating and for some reason thought her mother was trying to hurt her," Duncan said. There were indications that Catherine Akin had tried to defend herself during the attack, Duncan said, but he declined to elaborate. Another sign of a fight was that the house was in disarray, he said. Akin was being held in the Bastrop County Jail on Monday in lieu of $100,000 bail. "It's kind of an unusual situation when a family member kills another," Duncan said.