Thursday, August 23, 2012
Albrecht Muth has been in and out of the hospital while undergoing treatment and competency evaluations at St. Elizabeths.
Albrecht Muth recently re-initiated a hunger strike while undergoing psychiatric evaluation at St. Elizabeths. His fasting has resulted in his being admitted to the United Medical Center on three occasions and now St. Elizabeths has requested additional time to provide a report of his competence to stand trial because of his condition. Muth is charged with first-degree murder in the August 2011 homicide of his wife Viola Drath in her Georgetown home. At Muth's fourth and most recent competency hearing in July D.C. Superior Court Judge Russel F. Canan granted the hospital an additional four weeks to determine Muth's competency. Now in a letter dated Aug. 21, St. Elizabeths requested an extension to Sept. 4, two days before Muth's next …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Albrecht Muth appeared in court Thursday for a competency hearing, but experts requested more time for evaluation.
After a fourth mental competency hearing, Albrecht Muth's capacity to stand trial remains undetermined. Dr. Michele Godwin, a psychologist from St. Elizabeths Hospital where Muth is currently admitted, said the hospital needs more time to evaluate the patient, review journals entries he wrote and interview his family members. Muth is charged with first-degree murder in the August 2011 homicide of his wife Viola Drath in her Georgetown home. Judge D.C. Superior Court Judge Russel F. Canan is allowing the hospital an additional four weeks to determine Muth's competency. Experts hired by the prosecution to evaluate the defendant are expected to release their opinion on his mental health within two weeks. Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said he …
Georgetown murder suspect Albrecht Muth is undergoing evaluation and treatment at St. Elizabeths mental hospital.
Doctors at St. Elizabeths report that Albrecht Muth remains incompetent to stand trial and that they would like more time to interview family members and review Muth's documents before concluding their evaluations, according to a letter filed in D.C. Superior Court Tuesday. Muth is undergoing evaluation and treatment at the mental health facility after being diagnosed with Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type and Schizotypal Personality Disorder. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Georgetown Patch by signing up for newsletters here. "We respectfull request that a continuance be granted so that the Hospital may receive additional documentation that would assist with formulating the opinion for the ordered competency examination…
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Georgetown murder suspect Albrecht Muth is undergoing evaluation and treatment at St. Elizabeths mental hospital.
Defense attorney Dana Page promised D.C. Superior Court Judge Russel F. Canal that there would be litigation on behalf of her client, Albrecht Muth, if he is found competent by the next scheduled status conference in July. Muth appeared in court Thursday for a status conference on his competency to stand trial and represent himself, as he has requested. In a letter Tuesday, doctors at St. Elizabeths reported that Albrecht Muth, the Georgetown murder suspect, remains incompetent for trial. Muth continues to claim that he is a general in the Iraqi Army and that his wife's death was a "hit" by Iranian agents, according to the June 19 letter. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Georgetown Patch by signing up for newsletters here. A …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Georgetown murder suspect Albrecht Muth is due in court Thursday.
Albrecht Muth, the Georgetown murder suspect, remains incompetent for trial, according to a letter filed in D.C. Superior Court Tuesday by doctors at St. Elizabeths. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday for a status hearing. Muth is undergoing evaluation and treatment at the mental health facility after being diagnosed with Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type and Schizotypal Personality Disorder. A grand jury indicted Muth on the charge of first-degree murder in the death of his wife Viola Drath; his trial is scheduled for October. Drath, 91, was found dead in her home in August 2011; a medical examiner determined the cause of death was strangulation and blunt force trauma. Muth continues to claim that he is a general in the …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Albrecht Muth, 47, is being held in D.C. prison for the murder of his 91-year-old wife, Viola Drath.
The man accused of strangling his 91-year-old wife to death in her Georgetown home has followed through with a planned hunger strike. At a preliminary hearing Nov. 18, Albrecht Muth told Judge Russell F. Canan that he would begin an "unlimited fast" on Nov. 20. The D.C. Department of Corrections confirmed the inmate has made good on that promise. "Inmate Muth is on a hunger strike. He is monitored daily by medical staff, receives daily meals, nutritional supplements as well as nutrient rich fluids," wrote Sylvia Lane, a spokeswoman for Department of Corrections, in an email to Patch. The strike started more than one month ago. The department did not immediately return a request for information about the current status of Muth's health or …
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Christine Mirzayan was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered in a wooded area off of Canal Road in Georgetown on August 1, 1998.
The D.C Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) will launch a website in the next few weeks that they hope will lead to a resolution in a cold case- the Georgetown murder of Christine Mirzayan in the summer if 1998, according to the Washington Post. Police believe they have now linked Mirzayan's killer with a man who committed eight sexual attacks in nearby Montgomery County between 1991 and 1998. Capt. Michael Farish of the D.C. police’s homicide unit told the Post: “The odds are that a guy who sexually assaults nine women — killing the last one — is not going to stop cold turkey with that kind of violence against women.” The move for the new website follows the recent break in the East Coast Rapist case, which came after an intensive media …
