An entitled Missouri son is accused of bludgeoning his mom to dying with a gardening device after weeks of “violently” demanding and threatening her handy over his inheritance.
Christian County deputies have 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 along 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, in accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by the outlet.
Cole stated his deputies suspected one thing was amiss with how Derrick Alling was performing throughout their questioning, and his solutions didn’t add up.
“They only had a intestine feeling that one thing wasn’t fairly proper, and so they 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 assume so.”
Alling then informed the deputies his mom was within the visitor home, the place they discovered Carolyn Alling’s bloodied and crushed 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 induced 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 at the moment being held with out bond.
Prosecutors described Alling’s alleged actions as “violent and ugly.”
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 couple of weeks to permit him entry to his inheritance, in accordance with court docket information obtained by the Kansas Metropolis Star.
“The sufferer had been recording the defendant performing 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 “hold their marriage secret for concern of the defendant performing violently towards them if he discovered.”
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 shifting again to Ozark, in accordance with her obituary.
She was remembered for being keen about “animals and liked spending time close to water” and “homemaking, artwork, being outdoor, 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.
