d . By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 13:32 EST, 28 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 15:18 EST, 28 November 2012 . A 36-year-old Utah woman with a history of mental illness and long criminal record is accused of stabbing her mother to death as she lay in bed, where she had remained for several days before her body was discovered Monday. Airida Maria Gruodis told police ‘bad things happen’ when she's off medication shortly before her arrest. Police in the Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights said Gruodis’ father blamed her for the killing and that they have evidence to prove it. Family tragedy: Airida Gruodis, 36, left, is accused of stabbing her mother, 58-year-old Zita Gruodis, right, several times and then leaving her body in her room for days . Peter Gruodis, 60, however, didn't report his wife was dead until police pulled him over at around 3pm Monday for erratic driving. Investigators believe his wife was slain a day or two before. An officer was interviewing Gruodis for several minutes when he unexpectedly blurted out that he was ‘distraught because his wife was dead" in their home, a jail report states.’ Police arrived at the family’s home on Chadbourne Drive at around 3.30pm and discovered  Zita Gruodis' body on her bed with numerous knife wounds, police Sgt. Gary Young said. She was 58. Surprise admission: The victim's husband, Peter Gruodis, was pulled over during a traffic stop and told officers that he was driving erratically because he was distraught over his wife's murder . When detectives interviewed Peter . Gruodis again, he said his daughter had reacted with ‘indifference’ after he discovered his wife's body. Young called the husband's failure . to promptly report his wife's death ‘quite peculiar.’ The . mother, a Latvian national, had a series of protective orders filed . against her daughter in the past, but none at the time of the killing, . he said. ‘We've been there numerous times for mental health issues,’ Young said Tuesday. ‘It was very tragic.’Airida . Gruodis was being held without bail at Salt Lake County jail on charges . of aggravated murder and assault by a prisoner— she allegedly bit an . arresting officer's hand and had to be placed in a restraining hazmat . suit. Utah court records . show the woman has a seven-year criminal record complicated by a bipolar . disorder. She was most recently charged February 9, also with assault . by a prisoner. According . to court records, the 36-year-old woman allegedly kicked an officer at . the jail who was trying to get her ready to go to court. That felony . charge remains unresolved. Also, she has been in and out of hospitals and is under the supervision of a mental-health court, records show. Her father, Peter Gruodis, also was being held Tuesday at Salt Lake County jail on an unrelated domestic-violence warrant. Court records show he has a history of DUIs, medical seizures and car accidents. Zita Gruodis, who owned a massage parlour in Holladay, also had had run-ins with the law. On February 12, she was arrested for domestic violence. Online records list another arrest in 2004 on an unspecified charge. When officers visited the family duplex Monday, Airida Gruodis was ‘evasive and dismissive’ about her dead mother, jail documents said. Gristly scene: Zita Gruodis' body was found with multiple stab wounds on her bed in the Cottonwood Heights home she shared with her husband and daughter at least one or two days after the murder . Deeply troubled: Gruodis, pictured here in two different mugshots, has a long history of mental health problems and criminal behavior, including instances of domestic abuse involving her mother . She acknowledged being off her . medication, which means ‘bad things happening,’ she told police. Young . said he didn't know what type of medication the woman was taking or have . any information about her mental health condition. In a separate police interview, Peter Gruodis said his daughter had a ‘volatile relationship’ with her mother. In . a handwritten letter filed in June, Mrs Gruodis begged a 3rd District . judge to help her daughter. The one-page note, written in broken . English, reads in part: ‘… How she behave, it was insene," she wrote. "I . just have one daughter, and she does'n have freedom,’ Desert News reported. Gruodis . claimed police forced her to get a protective order against her . daughter because an ambulance had been called to her house. Court records show a judge dismissed the no contact order at a 3rd District Court hearing in July.Neighbors told police they heard a loud argument between daughter and mother on the day of her presumed death. Gruodis’ landlord and friend, David Sollis, said he believes the victim’s daughter should have been committed to a mental institution if for no other reason than to protect her mother. ‘She is a threat to society and has been ever since they let her out approximately three years ago,’ he said of Airida Gruodis. ‘(Zita) loved her daughter. But she couldn't control her daughter's medications.’
Airida Maria Gruodis, 36, accused of stabbing her 58-year-old mother, Zita, multiple times .
Gruodis' father, Peter Gruodis, told police during traffic stop he was 'distraught' his wife was murdered in their home .
Records show suspect told officers 'bad things happening' when she is off her medications .
Has long criminal record with multiple arrests for domestic abuse and history of mental problems .
Mother asked judge in July dismiss order of protection against Gruodis, writing that she was 'insane' and needed help .
d . By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 13:32 EST, 28 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 15:18 EST, 28 November 2012 . A 36-year-old Utah woman with a history of mental illness and long criminal record is accused of stabbing her mother to death as she lay in bed, where she had remained for several days before her body was discovered Monday. Airida Maria Gruodis told police ‘bad things happen’ when she's off medication shortly before her arrest. Police in the Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights said Gruodis’ father blamed her for the killing and that they have evidence to prove it. Family tragedy: Airida Gruodis, 36, left, is accused of stabbing her mother, 58-year-old Zita Gruodis, right, several times and then leaving her body in her room for days . Peter Gruodis, 60, however, didn't report his wife was dead until police pulled him over at around 3pm Monday for erratic driving. Investigators believe his wife was slain a day or two before. An officer was interviewing Gruodis for several minutes when he unexpectedly blurted out that he was ‘distraught because his wife was dead" in their home, a jail report states.’ Police arrived at the family’s home on Chadbourne Drive at around 3.30pm and discovered  Zita Gruodis' body on her bed with numerous knife wounds, police Sgt. Gary Young said. She was 58. Surprise admission: The victim's husband, Peter Gruodis, was pulled over during a traffic stop and told officers that he was driving erratically because he was distraught over his wife's murder . When detectives interviewed Peter . Gruodis again, he said his daughter had reacted with ‘indifference’ after he discovered his wife's body. Young called the husband's failure . to promptly report his wife's death ‘quite peculiar.’ The . mother, a Latvian national, had a series of protective orders filed . against her daughter in the past, but none at the time of the killing, . he said. ‘We've been there numerous times for mental health issues,’ Young said Tuesday. ‘It was very tragic.’Airida . Gruodis was being held without bail at Salt Lake County jail on charges . of aggravated murder and assault by a prisoner— she allegedly bit an . arresting officer's hand and had to be placed in a restraining hazmat . suit. Utah court records . show the woman has a seven-year criminal record complicated by a bipolar . disorder. She was most recently charged February 9, also with assault . by a prisoner. According . to court records, the 36-year-old woman allegedly kicked an officer at . the jail who was trying to get her ready to go to court. That felony . charge remains unresolved. Also, she has been in and out of hospitals and is under the supervision of a mental-health court, records show. Her father, Peter Gruodis, also was being held Tuesday at Salt Lake County jail on an unrelated domestic-violence warrant. Court records show he has a history of DUIs, medical seizures and car accidents. Zita Gruodis, who owned a massage parlour in Holladay, also had had run-ins with the law. On February 12, she was arrested for domestic violence. Online records list another arrest in 2004 on an unspecified charge. When officers visited the family duplex Monday, Airida Gruodis was ‘evasive and dismissive’ about her dead mother, jail documents said. Gristly scene: Zita Gruodis' body was found with multiple stab wounds on her bed in the Cottonwood Heights home she shared with her husband and daughter at least one or two days after the murder . Deeply troubled: Gruodis, pictured here in two different mugshots, has a long history of mental health problems and criminal behavior, including instances of domestic abuse involving her mother . She acknowledged being off her . medication, which means ‘bad things happening,’ she told police. Young . said he didn't know what type of medication the woman was taking or have . any information about her mental health condition. In a separate police interview, Peter Gruodis said his daughter had a ‘volatile relationship’ with her mother. In . a handwritten letter filed in June, Mrs Gruodis begged a 3rd District . judge to help her daughter. The one-page note, written in broken . English, reads in part: ‘… How she behave, it was insene," she wrote. "I . just have one daughter, and she does'n have freedom,’ Desert News reported. Gruodis . claimed police forced her to get a protective order against her . daughter because an ambulance had been called to her house. Court records show a judge dismissed the no contact order at a 3rd District Court hearing in July.Neighbors told police they heard a loud argument between daughter and mother on the day of her presumed death. Gruodis’ landlord and friend, David Sollis, said he believes the victim’s daughter should have been committed to a mental institution if for no other reason than to protect her mother. ‘She is a threat to society and has been ever since they let her out approximately three years ago,’ he said of Airida Gruodis. ‘(Zita) loved her daughter. But she couldn't control her daughter's medications.’
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