Charges pending against adopted daughter

An Ann Arbor woman with a history of mental illness is suspected in the stabbing death of her adoptive father, an 87 year-old man who was found dead in his home Saturday on the city’s west side, AnnArbor.com has learned.

Charges are expected to be filed Monday against Susan Ellen Wade, 48, in the death of Ronald Mason, at his home on the 1700 block of Covington Drive. Wade’s biological daughter, Kristine Crossman, of Adrian, confirmed the details.


“My mother pretty much stabbed my dad and I pretty much broke into the house and found my dad lying on the floor dead,” Crossman said.
Crossman said she considers Mason, who adopted her immediately after she was born and raised her with his late wife, to be her father.

Crossman said Wade has a history of drug abuse and gave her up for adoption by the Masons — Wade’s own adoptive parents — at the hospital immediately after she was born.