An entitled Missouri son is accused of bludgeoning his mom to loss of life with a gardening device after weeks of “violently” demanding and threatening her at hand over his inheritance.
Christian County deputies had been known as to the house of Carolyn Alling, 65, on Thursday at round 9:30 p.m. in Ozark after her husband requested a well-being test as a result of she had not returned his telephone calls all through the day, Sheriff Brad Cole informed KBTX.
Officers met together with her son, Derrick Alling, upon arrival on the dwelling — about 180 miles southeast of Kansas Metropolis — and instantly questioned the 39-year-old about his mom’s whereabouts, based on court docket paperwork obtained by the outlet.
Cole stated his deputies suspected one thing was amiss with how Derrick Alling was appearing throughout their questioning, and his solutions didn’t add up.
“They only had a intestine feeling that one thing wasn’t fairly proper, they usually acted upon that,” the sheriff stated. “Sadly, the intestine feeling that they had, they discovered to be true.”
When officers requested Alling if his mom was okay, he stayed quiet. Once they adopted up with whether or not he knew if she was alive, he informed them, “he didn’t suppose so.”
Alling then informed the deputies his mom was within the visitor home, the place they discovered Carolyn Alling’s bloodied and overwhelmed physique, KBTX reported.
She had been bludgeoned repeatedly within the head and face with a gardening or scraping device in an assault so brutal it precipitated a number of cranium fractures, authorities stated.
Derrick Alling is charged with first-degree homicide and armed legal motion and was booked into the Christian County Jail. He’s presently being held with out bond.
Prosecutors described Alling’s alleged actions as “violent and grotesque.”
Alling’s stepfather, who known as within the well-being test for his spouse, stated his stepson was the beneficiary of his mom’s belief and had threatened her a number of occasions over the previous few weeks to permit him entry to his inheritance, based on court docket information obtained by the Kansas Metropolis Star.
“The sufferer had been recording the defendant appearing aggressively and violently in the direction of her inside weeks of her homicide,” authorities famous.
The stepfather additionally allegedly informed police that he and Carolyn Alling needed to “maintain their marriage secret for concern of the defendant appearing violently towards them if he came upon.”
Carolyn Alling — a licensed dental hygienist — was a Missouri native who hung out residing in California with Derrick, her late husband, and their daughter earlier than transferring again to Ozark, based on her obituary.
She was remembered for being obsessed with “animals and cherished spending time close to water” and “homemaking, artwork, being outside, and constructing issues.”
Alling has pleaded not responsible to his mom’s homicide. He’s scheduled to be in court docket once more on Oct. 14.
