The 31-year-old reportedly told police he was thinking about killing his mother for about a week.
reports that 31-year-old Travis J. Lewton is accused of choking his mother in a deadly attack after she returned home from work.
According to court records, Lewton admitted to taking his mother’s body down to a ravine behind the house, stuffing it in a sewer pipe and setting the body on fire. The 31-year-old told police that he had been thinking about killing his mother for about a week, according to court documents. Officers with the Toledo Police Department said they received a call on Saturday morning regarding a missing person.
According to authorities, police responded to a home in the 1000 block of Wildwood Road, about 10 minutes from downtown Toledo, and found a burned area behind the home’s garage.Lewton has been charged with premeditated aggravated murder, authorities said.
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