William Ingram (left inset in a mug shot), (right) police tape visible as investigators respond to Dolores Ingram’s apartment (WPVI/screengrab)
An 82-year-old woman was found dead and buried under a couch in the living room of her condo in Holland, Pennsylvania, over the weekend after her son stole her car and drove to Washington, D.C., where he allegedly launched a skateboard attack on police while naked and subsequently blurted out “I killed my mother,” prosecutors in Bucks County say.
A Bucks County detective on the case said that local authorities received a call on Sunday, Father’s Day, from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., about 49-year-old William “Billy” Michael Ingram’s arrest for allegedly attacking a cop and cop car there. The suspect allegedly offered up a confession in the slaying of Dolores Ingram, D.C. cops said.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, after the suspect told D.C. cops “I killed my mother,” authorities in Bucks County went to Dolores’ condo for a welfare check. The Village Shires residence, located on Beacon Hill Drive right across from a Dunkin’ and local restaurants, was clearly a crime scene.
Responding investigators quickly noticed “blood on the window sill” in the back of the residence, opened an unlocked window, and then further “observed blood smeared on the walls, window and floor, with furniture inside the condo in obvious “disarray.”
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Inside the living room, authorities revealed, there was a “pile of clothes, glass plates, towels/linens, a blue laundry bag, a futon/couch, and miscellaneous household items.” When one officer moved the couch, he “observed a foot” sticking out from underneath.
“He felt the foot was cold to the touch,” court documents said. “It appeared to be a foot of a white elderly woman. There were no signs of life.”
The affidavit said that one neighbor, Michelle, told police of being “awoken by loud banging” in the early morning hours on Saturday.
“While she was awake she reviewed a camera on the exterior of her residence that points out toward the walkway,” the affidavit said. “At 1:42 a.m. the camera shows ‘Billy’ (who is identified as William Ingram) come running out of the apartment shirtless.”
Several hours later, the suspect left the residence with a shirt on and with a duffel bag in hand, and he stole his mother’s Honda Civic, only to end up arrested in D.C. under bizarre circumstances, authorities alleged.
As of Monday, William Ingram was still in custody in Washington, D.C., the DA’s office said.
As Pennsylvania investigators await the results of an autopsy, the suspect in the homicide case was charged with theft, receiving stolen property, and unauthorized use of his mother’s car.
Stunned neighbors speaking to local ABC affiliate WPVI called it “unusual” and “rare” to see this kind of violence locally. Brandon Garrett reportedly said that he remembered seeing Dolores Ingram outside “watering her flowers.”
Read the affidavit of probable cause here.
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