Prosecutors filed charges on Thursday against an 83-year-old man suspected of murdering his caregiver.

Jerusalem resident Shimon Gutman, the suspected killer, had served time in jail over four decades ago for a deadly mail bombing.

The victim, Haviva Vashdi, 67, had been caring for Gutman for four years. He allegedly became suspicious that Vashdi was stealing money and jewelry from him, and therefore decided to kill her, according to the indictment.

During her time caring for Gutman, Vashdi helped him with housekeeping, grocery shopping and laundry, prosecutors said.

During one of Vashdi’s visits to Gutman around the time of Rosh Hashanah last month, the elderly man took a knife to Vashdi’s throat, then stabbed her in the back and chest, prosecutors say.

Gutman told a social worker scheduled to visit him that day not to come, saying that he would be out of town, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

The suspect then allegedly attempted to hide her body in a bathtub, filling it with water in order to hasten the corpse’s decomposition. He cleaned the bloodstains from the........

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