Bible, Ten Commandments Talk Turns Bloody Domestic Dispute

A discussion about the Bible and the Ten Commandments ended Saturday in a bloody domestic dispute at a Cartersville motel.

Police were called about 1 a.m. to a Crown Inn motel room at 1214 N. Tennessee St. in Cartersville, with the original call a 911 hangup, according to the Cartersville Police Department incident report, above.

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When an officer arrived, he noticed fresh blood on the carpet and a bloody towel in the sink. The occupants of the room, Carolyn Murley Unfricht, 56, and Daniel Joseph Camarda, 35, "were highly intoxicated with slurred speech and having some difficulty walking," the officer wrote in the report.

Unfricht told police the two had been talking about the Bible and the Ten Commandments, the discussion "became heated" and she "arose from her seat with the Bible in hand and struck...Camarda across the face," causing a red mark to his face and breaking his glasses, the report says. 

She said "Camarda then slung her across the room striking the television and a table" and "at some point during being thrown around she struck her head causing a cut...(and injuring) her right foot."

Unfricht had blood on her neck and the right side of her head, but refused emergency medical treatment.

Camarda told police the two were talking and Unfricht "got up and struck him with the Bible," breaking his $150 glasses, according to the report. He allegedly said Unfricht was injured when she fell down.

Both were arrested and taken to the Bartow County Jail. Camarda was charged with battery under the Family Violence Act, while Unfricht was charged with battery and criminal trespass, both under the Family Violence Act.

It's unclear how the two are related.

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