A 51-year-old man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to beating and killing his 82-year-old mother inside her condominium in Bucks County.
William Ingram was sentenced Wednesday to 30 to 64 years behind bars for what prosecutors described as a brutal and senseless crime. According to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, Ingram pleaded guilty in December to third-degree murder, aggravated assault, abuse of a corpse, theft-related offenses, weapons charges, cruelty to animals, and drug charges.
Surveillance, Confession and Discovery
In the early morning hours of June 15, 2024, a neighbor in Holland, a suburb of Philadelphia, reported hearing loud banging and later observed Ingram running from the condo shirtless. Later that morning, he left the residence in his mother’s white Honda Civic.
Authorities say Ingram drove roughly 160 miles to Washington, where he allegedly attacked a police officer and made multiple incriminating statements, including telling officers and hospital staff, “I killed my mother.”…