MOULTRIE —
The wife of a man whose body was found at a park near downtown Moultrie in September has been charged with homicide in his death.
Cynthia Alderman was indicted last week by a Colquitt County grand jury whose findings were made public on Tuesday.
Alderman was indicted on charges of vehicular homicide, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.
Georgia law distinguishes between homicide and murder in that the latter requires intent to cause the death of another. The first-degree vehicular charge is predicated on a person causing the death of another while in the act of committing another crime.
Cynthia Alderman is accused of causing Stanley Alderman’s death while in the act of driving recklessly.
In an autopsy report sent to local officials last week, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that their examination indicated that Stanley Alderman died of multiple blunt force trauma caused by being struck by a car. It also said evidence showed that Stanley Alderman’s death was a homicide.
Stanley Alderman’s body was found early in the morning of Sept. 1 in a park with a shelter that is a short distance from downtown Moultrie and is a daytime gathering spot.
At the time, Moultrie police and GBI officials said that the death was being treated as a homicide. The GBI later said it was waiting for the results of toxicology results for Stanley Alderman.
Those tests showed that he did not have illegal substances or alcohol in his system.
A police spokesman said Tuesday that a warrant will be taken for Cynthia Alderman, who had not been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon.
The homicide charge is not the first accusation of a violent episode for Cynthia Alderman, who was accused in August 2006, under the name Cynthia Ann Montgomery, of fighting with a female Moultrie police officer and trying to take the officer’s gun during that struggle.
She was accused of obstruction of an officer, taking a law enforcement officer’s weapon, operating a motor vehicle without a valid license, reckless driving, weaving over roadway and failure to stop at the scene of an accident, Colquitt County Superior Court records said.
Cynthia Alderman pleaded guilty in that case to obstruction of an officer and was sentenced to 150 to 210 days in a detention center and three years’ probation.
In an older case, as Cynthia Mongtomery, she was charged with driving with a suspended license, open container, expired tag, no proof of insurance and a headlight violation.
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