Man Charged With Killing His 82-Year-Old Mother In Northampton

NORTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA — William Michael Ingram has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of his mother at her Northampton Township condominium.

Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn was joined by Northampton Township Police Chief Steven LeCompte Thursday afternoon in announcing upgraded charges against William Ingram and additional details in the case.

William Ingram is charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime, abuse of a corpse, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and cruelty to animals.

Ingram was taken into custody in Washington, D.C., for assaulting an officer and damaging a police vehicle. During his arrest, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said he confessed to Metro D.C. police officers that he had killed his mother.

Metro D.C. Police reached out to the Northampton Township Police Department, which conducted a well being check on Sunday morning. During that check, officers found 82-year-old Dolores Ingram deceased inside her Beacon Hill Drive home.

An autopsy conducted Tuesday by Forensic Pathologist Dr. Ian Hood found that Dolores Ingram suffered multiple injuries, including blunt force trauma, slicing injuries, and lacerations. Dr. Hood ruled her cause of death to be multiple injuries and manner of death to be homicide.

Ingram will be arraigned later Thursday evening where prosecutors will ask that he be remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility without bail.

“I want to offer my condolences to the victim’s family,” District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. “This is a heartbreaking case, and our hearts go out to her family members.”

District Attorney Schorn and Northampton Township Police Lt. Charles Pinkerton also thanked the officers of the Metropolitan D.C. Police Department and local detectives, police officers and prosecutors involved in the investigation for helping to solve the case in an expedited manner.

When police arrived at the condo, they found blood on a windowsill and observed more blood inside the condo and the living room in disarray, so they forced entry through the locked front door. During the initial investigation, police cleared out a huge pile of clothes, towels/linens, furniture, and other household items on the far-right side of the living room and located Dolores Ingram buried underneath.

During the search of the home, investigators located a large quantity of blood throughout the residence. Blood was found in every room in the two-bedroom apartment, including the entrance foyer, both bedrooms, living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Police also noted holes in the drywall.

Investigators said some of the items piled on the victim included a large geode type of rock weighing approximately 60 pounds and a shattered glass aquarium that had housed two reptile/lizards, which were both found deceased on the floor. Police also recovered a hunting-style knife near the victim's head.

Numerous household items that had been stacked on the victim had been broken or damaged when thrown on top of the woman, including furniture, dishes, lamps, fans, books, and a television. William Ingram’s wallet, which contained his driver’s license, was also recovered in the rubble, police said.

Also in the pile, police found a blue laundry bag that contained six pounds of marijuana, a partially transparent store bag that contained $53,500 in rubber-banded packs of $100 and $50 bills, another plastic bag containing suspected marijuana, and a large bag of suspected Psylocibin mushrooms.

The search of the defendant’s bedroom turned up three cases of THC vape cartridges, a total of 124 packs, in the original sealed packaging, 44 packs of THC vape cartridges in original sealed packaging, a case containing 65 packs of 500 mg THC edibles, two cellophane zip lock baggies of suspected hash, two bottles of THC infused syrup, 10 jars of THC sugar resin, 14 tubes of rolled marijuana, 19 glass jars of marijuana, four gallon size bags of marijuana, eight Psylocibin/magic mushroom bars, and two gallon-size bags of Psylocibin mushrooms.

Bucks County and Northampton Township Detectives traveled to Washington, D.C., as part of the investigation and viewed hours of Body Worn Camera (BWC) footage from Metro D.C. Police. In one segment, William Ingram stated, “I killed my mom, did I tell you that, that's what they are probably telling you...and I threw all this shit over her, I remember now, it comes back to me later,” according to a criminal complaint.

A witness at the condo complex reported seeing William Ingram leaving the home at 10:03 a.m. Saturday, carrying a duffel bag. Police located William Ingram’s vehicle in the complex’s parking lot, but his mother’s white 2015 Honda Civic was missing.

During another segment of police body camera footage, the defendant was asked how he got to Washington D.C., and he responded, “I drove my mom's car,” according to the criminal complaint.

The vehicle, a white 2015 Honda Civic with Pennsylvania Registration KTV-2098, remains missing. Anyone with information should contact the Northampton Township Police Department at 215-322-6111 or Bucks County Detectives at 215-348-6354 or Bucksda.org.

(Courtesy of the Bucks County District Attorney's Office)