Yardley Man Murders Mother: Lower Makefield Police​

A woman was found dead in her Lower Makefield Township home Thursday afternoon after a man walking on Taylorsville Road said he killed his mother, according to Lower Makefield Township Police.

Police said that at about 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 8, a 30-year-old identified as Zachary Cope of Lower Yardley stopped a driver on the 200 block of Taylorsville Road and said he killed his mother.

Police said the man was "partially clad" and appeared to have been in a physical altercation.

The man said the killing happened at a Lower Hilltop Road home and when police arrived at the residence they found a deceased woman in the home, according to police. Police confirmed the woman was Rebecca Cope, 52, Zachary Cope's mother.

Police said the manor in which the Rebecca Cope was killed is unknown as of Thursday night, but that blunt force trauma and knife wounds were discovered on her body.

Lower Makefield Township Police and Bucks County Detectives are investigating the incident, police said.

According to court records, Zachary Cope was arraigned at 9:30 p.m. Thursday and held without bail on charges of felony criminal homicide and possession of an instrument of crime.

Zachary Cope's preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 14 before Magisterial District Judge Michael J. Burns.

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