Mom Says She Strangled 11-Year-Old Son So He Didn’t Have To Fret Over Family’s Finances
Murder
A Pennsylvania mother charged with killing her 11-year-old son did it so the boy didn’t have to grow up under the stress of “the family’s financial difficulties.” Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, strangled her son Matthew as he slept with her husband’s belt, then locked the bedroom door and drove to Cape May, New Jersey, where she …
