ESCONDIDO — An Escondido man has been arrested in connection with the death of his stepmother, authorities announced Tuesday.
Christopher Ryan Trudell, 43, was taken into custody Sunday by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies and booked into the San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of murder, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.
The investigation began May 28 when deputies from the Sheriff’s Office’s San Marcos Station responded to a residence in the 1600 block of Citrus Hills Lane in an unincorporated area near Escondido. Deputies found the resident, 78-year-old Marytrese Comer, dead at the scene…