An entitled Missouri son is accused of bludgeoning his mom to loss of life with a gardening instrument after weeks of “violently” demanding and threatening her handy over his inheritance.
Christian County deputies have been referred to 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 verify as a result of she had not returned his telephone calls all through the day, Sheriff Brad Cole advised KBTX.
Officers met together with her son, Derrick Alling, upon arrival on the residence — about 180 miles southeast of Kansas Metropolis — and instantly questioned the 39-year-old about his mom’s whereabouts, in keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by the outlet.
Cole mentioned 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 mentioned. “Sadly, the intestine feeling they’d, 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 advised them, “he didn’t assume so.”
Alling then advised 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 instrument in an assault so brutal it triggered a number of cranium fractures, authorities mentioned.
Derrick Alling is charged with first-degree homicide and armed felony motion and was booked into the Christian County Jail. He’s at present being held with out bond.
Prosecutors described Alling’s alleged actions as “violent and ugly.”
Alling’s stepfather, who referred to as within the well-being verify for his spouse, mentioned his stepson was the beneficiary of his mom’s belief and had threatened her a number of instances over the previous few weeks to permit him entry to his inheritance, in keeping with courtroom information obtained by the Kansas Metropolis Star.
“The sufferer had been recording the defendant performing aggressively and violently in direction of her inside weeks of her homicide,” authorities famous.
The stepfather additionally allegedly advised police that he and Carolyn Alling needed to “maintain 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 frolicked dwelling in California with Derrick, her late husband, and their daughter earlier than transferring again to Ozark, in keeping with her obituary.
She was remembered for being keen about “animals and liked 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 courtroom once more on Oct. 14.
