The 46-year-old bride-to-be killed her 82-year-old fiance and then lived with his corpse for two months

A bride-to-be killed her fiancé and then lived with his corpse for two months to hide her crime, which was only discovered when the victim’s stepdaughter sounded the alarm that she hadn’t heard from him in months.

Tabitha Zelida Wood, 46, was found guilty by a jury in Hall County, Georgia on Friday of killing and concealing the death of her fiance, Leroy Franklin Kramer, 82, according to WSB-TV.

Kramer’s stepdaughter reported in June 2021 that she was concerned for his safety after not hearing from him for several months.

When Hall County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at his home, they discovered his body and learned from Wood that Kramer had died in early April.

She revealed to officers that she has been living with his body since – for more than two months.

Tabitha Zelida Wood (pictured), 46, was found guilty by a jury in Hall County, Georgia on Friday of killing and concealing the death of her fiancé Leroy Franklin Kramer, 82

Kramer’s stepdaughter reported in June 2021 that she was concerned for his safety after not hearing from him for several months. When Hall County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at his home, they discovered his body and learned from Wood that Kramer had died two months earlier in early April

An autopsy found the 82-year-old died from homicide, with his preliminary cause of death being blunt and sharp trauma, the sheriff’s office said.

Wood was found guilty of malicious murder, double felony murder, aggravated assault, exploitation of an elderly person, covering up the death of another person, and stealing financial transaction cards.

During the murder trial, Wood said she slept next to her dead fiancé for three days before she “come to her senses” and realized he was deceased, which she “couldn’t accept,” according to the local Gainesville Times.

Wood’s relationship with Kramer began after they first met for breakfast at Burger King after being introduced by a friend.

At the fast food restaurant, Kramer explained that he needed help and was tired of living alone. Then, in 2020, Wood moved into his home on Candler Road and became engaged to him the following year.

As the relationship progressed, Kramer became “aggressive,” according to Wood.

She claimed he would hit her with a belt, especially if she refused to have sex with him.

She said he has a “great mind,” which was denied by his stepdaughter when discussing Kramer’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

Around the time of his death, Wood said Kramer asked her if she wanted to go in the bedroom and have sex, which she declined.

She told the court she relented and told Kramer she would have sex with him if that ended the fight. She added: “In the end I didn’t and he started hitting me with a belt again.”

She claimed Kramer later that evening told her she was going to have sex with him and marry him, after which he allegedly grabbed her hair when she tried to force him away.

While she said she kicked him, she also testified that she “could potentially have blacked out.”

She said she ran out of the house and didn’t come back until the next morning to make breakfast, but Kramer never came to eat.

She told the court when she went to check on him he was still lying in the same position in bed, adding: “He was dripping blood from his nose. I kept shaking him and I said, ‘Leroy, please wake up. Please wake up.’

She slept next to him for three days in April and then decided to hide the body in her home, believing that “no one would listen to her story of what happened”.

When the body was discovered in June, it had already been at the home for two months, during which Georgia temperatures typically reach 36 degrees.