When the police arrived at their home they found him in the back with blood on his hands, face and clothes, while they found a broken candlestick, a knife in his possession and one under his wife’s body
An 84-year-old man from Pennsylvania, USA, beat his wife to death in their kitchen after they started fighting over who would pay for their cat’s vet.
Burton Seltman is facing charges of first and third degree murder.
84 year old Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County man charged with beating his 85 year old wife to death with a candle jar. Barton Seltmann’s “face, hands, clothing were covered in blood” & he told paramedics treating him that he had injured his wife during a fight. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/hSJW1kDlZF
— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) November 29, 2023
As reported by law and crime, he called the authorities on Tuesday and said that someone entered their home and killed his 85-year-old wife Margaret Seltman.
He described to the officers that his wife was bleeding and pretended not to realize what had happened.
However, when the police arrived at their home they found him in the back with blood on his hands, face and clothes, while they found a broken candlestick, a knife in his possession and one under his wife’s body.
He later confessed that he hit his wife during an argument after she claimed that first his wife grabbed a knife and turned towards him
Seltman is being held without bond at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility and faces a Dec. 5 preliminary hearing.
Source :Skai
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