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Sarah F. Abrams was 75 when she died on February 10, 1988. Her death was initially ruled a heart attack by coroners despite family members noting bruising around her nose and mouth and asking for an autopsy. Abrams was neither bedridden nor suicidal; her only documented health problems were age‑related.

More than a year after her death, prosecutors had Abrams’ body exhumed after incriminating statements by Jeffrey Lynn Feltner, a nurse’s aide at New Life Acres nursing home in Melrose, Florida. The subsequent autopsy found she had been smothered and had broken ribs, evidence that her death was caused by homicide. Feltner later acknowledged multiple killings of patients at the nursing home, was arrested and charged, pleaded guilty to two murders in exchange for a 25‑to‑life sentence, and died in prison from AIDS‑related complications.

Are there any former New Life Acres staff or visitors who remember Sarah Abrams or noticed anything unusual around February 1988?