Woman faces murder charge after victim of decades-old ‘shaken baby’ case dies at 35
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Terry McKirchy is facing a first-degree murder charge for a crime that prosecutors said she committed nearly four decades ago in Broward County. She thought the case was behind her, but a medical examiner’s office report shows differently, prosecutors said.
Benjamin Keith Dowling died Sept. 16, 2019 in Manatee County. He was 35 years old. After performing an autopsy, forensic experts with the medical examiner’s office ruled Sept. 27, 2019 that Dowling’s cause of death was “sequelae of abusive head trauma.” Prosecutors said the head injury happened in 1984.