A heartless man left people shell-shocked with his wicked act of brutality on his own mother.
Suspect, Charles Cole
A man named Charles Cole strangled his 76-year-old mother in the motel they lived and hid her body in the drawer for nearly two months before dumping it in a far away place.
He was arrested by the police on Friday after family members complained that the woman could not be reached. Police then launched an investigation which revealed that the son had killed the mother many weeks back and stuffed the body in a plastic bin, put it in his car and drove 80 miles to offload the dead body.
State Police Capt. John Ryan said: "I find it hard to imagine circumstances that could lead to a son strangling his mother, but to also live with her body in a motel room for seven weeks and to then travel several states away to dump her body like trash makes this a particularly disturbing and unusual case,"
Cole was arraigned on a murder charge and was jailed without bail. His wife was charged with tampering with evidence and was jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail.