Man Kills Mom Over Dirty House...wtf??

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Mom slain; son chargedAssociated Press
WOODBURY, N.J. - A New Jersey man has been charged with murdering his mother over the messy state of the house where he lived, authorities announced yesterday, ending almost two weeks of mystery surrounding her whereabouts.

Benjamin Martin, 30, killed his mother, Nancy Martin, 51, on March 10, Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said yesterday.

Martin was arrested Wednesday night, after relatives convinced him to lead police to his mother's body, which had been dumped in a bush near a garage off a rural road in nearby Monroe Township.

Nancy Martin, a fund-raiser at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, had just arrived at the white ranch-style home she owned in Pitman when the argument began, Dalton said.

Martin bought the house in the small town about 20 miles southeast of Philadelphia a few years ago. Neighbors said she planned to move back when she retired. After she left New Jersey last year for the job at her alma mater in Illinois - and to be near another of her three sons - Benjamin Martin remained in the home.

Nancy Martin was unhappy about how the house looked inside and confronted her son after she arrived. It was unclear whether he had been expecting her visit.

Dalton said Benjamin Martin responded to his mother's criticism by striking her neck with a blunt object and strangling her.

Her body apparently remained inside the home for four days before Benjamin Martin put it in her rental car and drove to the out-of-the-way place, where he dumped her before leaving the car in a parking lot. The car was discovered March 21.

Source --- :hmmm: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/nation/14229356.htm