Authorities say they have found the kitchen knife a Mokena woman used to brutally murder her elderly mother on Monday.<\/p>\n
A team of evidence technicians and law enforcement personnel spent much of Monday combing through 89-year-old Tresa McCauleys condo in the 19500 block of 116th Avenue for clues after her daughter, Gaye Wern, confessed to killing McCauley, police Cmdr. Chris Surdel said.<\/p>\n
The team was expected to finish searching for evidence today. <\/span><\/p>\n Wern, 57, came into Mokenas police station at 1:45 p.m. Monday and said she had killed McCauley several hours earlier in the day, Surdel said.<\/p>\n She was very distraught, Surdel said. Very quiet, with her head down in her lap. She wouldnt say much.<\/p>\n Police executed a search warrant at McCauleys condominium and found McCauley dead in her bathtub with multiple stab wounds in her torso, Surdel said.<\/p>\n McCauley was charged with one count of first-degree murder, Surdel said. Her bond hearing has been set for 1:30 p.m. today.<\/p>\n An autopsy of McCauley is also expected today.<\/p>\n Despite Werns confession, the reason for the slaying remains unclear, police said.<\/p>\n Detectives said they questioned (Wern) on two different occasions, and they cannot pinpoint a motive, Surdel said.<\/p>\n He said Wern previously lived elsewhere in Mokena but had been living with her mother at the condo for about six months.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Authorities say they have found the kitchen knife a Mokena woman used to brutally murder her elderly mother on Monday. A team of evidence technicians and law enforcement personnel spent much of Monday combing through 89-year-old Tresa McCauleys condo in the 19500 block of 116th Avenue for clues after her daughter, Gaye Wern, confessed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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