Teen called 911 claiming mom was kidnapped and police believe he killed her

Authorities have charged an 18-year-old Arizona man with murdering his mother after police say he called 911 and reported she had been kidnapped minutes after she was found dead by a jogger.

Pinal County Sheriff’s Office shared on social media that on Wednesday, October 30, at approximately 9:00 a.m., officers received a call from a jogger who “found a body in a farm field” in San Tan Valley and reported it to police.

Investigators said they identified the body as that of 38-year-old Mary Collier and in a statement said she “appears to be the victim of a homicide.”

According to police, “less than ten minutes” after receiving a call from a jogger about finding a dead woman, her teenage son called 911 “about a kidnapping” at their home. Officers say they have confirmed that the subject of both calls was the same woman.

Upon arriving at his home, officers discovered that his son – whose name has not been publicly released – was “suffering from self-inflicted wounds” and he “had been taken to hospital.” Police said he has been “identified as a homicide suspect” and will be booked into the Pinal County Jail on first-degree murder charges after he is released from the hospital.

The police did not reveal a possible motive for the murder, but they assume that it may have been related to a possible brawl that took place on Tuesday evening and which lasted into the next day – according to reports from the agency. KTVK Television AND Fox 10 Phoenix.

The jogger who found Collier’s body, James Richey, told KTVK-TV that when he passed by, he initially thought the body “resembled a Halloween scarecrow or something.” However, as he got “closer and closer, she started to look like a real person” and he found a “blade” next to her body.

“When I immediately saw blood on the blade, I thought: no, this is a dead body. It’s a crime scene,” Richey told the outlet. “The hilt was broken in two and then it was like the blade stayed there and the whole blade was covered in blood.”

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Collier’s niece, Rebecca Hatch, remembered the victim as an “amazing human being” in an interview with Fox 10 Phoenix, adding that she was “very passionate about her faith” and was also “selfless.”

“I’m sure if I could hear her last words, it would be about her family and the people she loved,” Hatch said. “She was that kind of person.”

Hatch also noted that it was “totally incomprehensible” that her son had been charged with a crime, adding: “Of all the people in the family, Mary was the one he loved the most and respected the most. inexplicable.”

According to A GoFundMe founded for her family, Collier leaves behind a husband and four children, the youngest of whom is 10 years old.

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said the incident remains under investigation.