It all started with a simple request. Maureen Petrie, 67, asked her 32-year-old son Michael to take his lunch dishes into the kitchen. According to police, an angry Michael Petrie sidled up to his mother while she watched television in October 2012 and struck her on the left side of her head with a martial arts weapon called a sai. He then stabbed her repeatedly. But the grisly crime soon became even more macabre. According to prosecutors, Petrie left his mother's corpse in the living room of their Barberton, Ohio, home. The murder weapons sat at her feet. In April 2013, investigators performed...
- 8/3/2014
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
It all started with a simple request. Maureen Petrie, 67, asked her 32-year-old son Michael to take his lunch dishes into the kitchen. According to police, an angry Michael Petrie sidled up to his mother while she watched television in October 2012 and struck her on the left side of her head with a martial arts weapon called a sai. He then stabbed her repeatedly. But the grisly crime soon became even more macabre. According to prosecutors, Petrie left his mother's corpse in the living room of their Barberton, Ohio, home. The murder weapons sat at her feet. In April 2013, investigators performed...
- 8/3/2014
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
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