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The boy was found by his father in a locked bedroom in their home northwest of Philadelphia. The dad then realized his wife and her SUV were missing.
The mother of the 11-year-old boy who was found dead in her home in Horsham, Pennsylvania has been charged with murder.
Update 9:45 a.m.: Ruth White-DiRienzo has been charged with first and second degree murder in the death of her 11-year-old son, WCAU reports. Original story: An 11-year-old Pennsylvania…
A Horsham Township woman allegedly told detectives she fatally strangled her 11-year-old son with a belt as he slept because she didn’t want him to grow up having to struggle with the family’s financial difficulties, according to court documents.
Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 11-year-old son, Matthew Whitehead, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. DiRienzo allegedly murdered the boy with a belt as he slept in their Horsham home, before driving the family car into the Cape May ocean.