Police say a northeastern Pennsylvania man charged with killing his mother told investigators he killed her because she verbally abused him.
Christopher Strachn, 21, was bound over for trial Monday in the death of his mother, Adrienne, who was 53.
"You're going to rot in hell, Christopher," a friend of the victim's told him after the hearing.
A state police investigator said Christopher Strachn told him he'd choked and stabbed his mother because of verbal abuse and her household rules. Adrienne had just called her son into the kitchen of their Polk Township home to eat the beef stew she'd made for him when he attacked her, choking her and stabbing her with a kitchen knife, according to police.
Christopher Strachn called 911 after the June 13 killing, according to police. Trooper Joseph Campbell said Strachn told them he'd taken medication for a mental illness before the killing.
According to the Pocono Record of Stroudsburg:
Strachn told police he had been thinking about killing her and other family members for some time, Campbell said. He said he had "pumped himself up" to kill his eldest sister, but never went through with it.
Family friends tell the Pocono Record of Stroudsburg Christopher Strachn's mother insisted on him staying at the home, not a treatment facility.
