Matthew Whitehead death: Pennsylvania woman accused of strangling 11-year-old son, fleeing state

HORSHAM, Pa. — A mother stands accused of murdering her 11-year-old son in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

The Montgomery County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned 50-year-old Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead is charged with first-degree homicide within the loss of life of Matthew Whitehead.

Police had been referred to as to the household’s dwelling simply after 7 a.m. Tuesday after the boy’s father discovered him lifeless.

Based on the D.A.’s workplace, an post-mortem confirmed Whitehead had been strangled.

Investigators mentioned DiRienzo-Whitehead killed her son after he went to sleep round 9:30 p.m. Monday, then drove the household’s SUV to Cape Could, New Jersey.

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She drove the car into the ocean, investigators mentioned, and as soon as the car might not be pushed, she walked to Wildwood Crest, New Jersey.

That is the place DiRienzo-Whitehead was taken into custody. She was then questioned by Montgomery County detectives and Horsham, Pennsylvania police.

A search of the SUV turned up a black males’s costume belt on the driving force’s facet ground of the car, the D.A.’s workplace mentioned.

There was no speedy phrase on a motive for this killing.

DiRienzo-Whitehead is presently being held in Cape Could County and is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County.