William Michael Ingram is being charged with killing his 82-year-old mother inside their condominium in the Holland section of Northampton Township, District Attorney Jennifer Schorn announced on Thursday.

Dolores Ingram was located deceased inside 26024 Beacon Hill Drive on Sunday morning after Bucks County radio dispatchers received a call from the Metropolitan D.C. Police Department to check on her well-being.

After being taken into custody Sunday in Washington D.C. for assaulting an officer and damaging a police vehicle, William Ingram, 49, told several Metro D.C. police officers that he had killed his mother.

An autopsy conducted Tuesday by Forensic Pathologist Dr. Ian Hood found that Dolores Ingram suffered multiple injuries, including blunt force trauma, slicing injuries, and lacerations. Dr. Hood ruled her cause of death to be multiple injuries and manner of death to be homicide.  

On Thursday, William Ingram was returned to Bucks County from Washington D.C., and was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Brian M. Marriott.

He was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime, abuse of a corpse, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and cruelty to animals.

Ingram was remanded to Bucks County Correctional Facility without bail. His preliminary hearing was scheduled for June 27.

“I want to offer my condolences to the victim’s family,” District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. “This is a heartbreaking case, and our hearts go out to her family members.”

District Attorney Schorn and Northampton Township Police Lt. Charles Pinkerton also thanked the officers of the Metropolitan D.C. Police Department and local detectives, police officers and prosecutors involved in the investigation for helping to solve this case in such an expedited manner.

On Sunday morning, Northampton Township police officers responded to the Beacon Hill Drive address after receiving information from Metro D.C. Police.

Police found blood on a windowsill and observed more blood inside the condo and the living room in disarray, so they forced entry through the locked front door. During the initial investigation, police cleared out a huge pile of clothes, towels/linens, furniture, and other household items on the far-right side of the living room and located Dolores Ingram buried underneath.

During the search of the home, investigators located a large quantity of blood throughout the residence. Blood was found in every room in the two-bedroom apartment, including the entrance foyer, both bedrooms, living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Police also noted holes in the drywall.

Some of the items piled on the victim, included a large geode type of rock weighing approximately 60 pounds, and a shattered glass aquarium that had housed two reptile/lizards, which were both found deceased on the floor. Police also recovered a hunting-style knife near the victim's head.

Numerous household items that had been stacked on the victim had been broken or damaged when thrown on top of the decedent, including furniture, dishes, lamps, fans, books, and a television. William Ingram’s wallet, which contained his driver’s license, was also recovered in the rubble.

Also in the pile, police located a blue laundry bag that contained six pounds of marijuana, a partially transparent store bag that contained $53,500 in rubber-banded packs of $100 and $50 bills, another plastic bag containing suspected marijuana, and a large bag of suspected Psylocibin mushrooms.

The search of the defendant’s bedroom turned up three cases of THC vape cartridges, a total of 124 packs, in the original sealed packaging, 44 packs of THC vape cartridges in original sealed packaging, a case containing 65 packs of 500 mg THC edibles, two cellophane zip lock baggies of suspected hash, two bottles of THC infused syrup, 10 jars of THC sugar resin, 14 tubes of rolled marijuana, 19 glass jars of marijuana, four gallon size bags of marijuana, eight Psylocibin/magic mushroom bars, and two gallon-size bags of Psylocibin mushrooms.

Bucks County and Northampton Township Detectives went to Washington D.C. as part of the investigation and viewed hours of Body Worn Camera (BWC) footage from Metro D.C. Police. In one segment, William Ingram stated “I killed my mom, did I tell you that, that's what they are probably telling you...and I threw all this shit over her, I remember now, it comes back to me later,” according to a criminal complaint.

Missing Honda Civic

A witness at the condo complex reported seeing William Ingram leaving the home at 10:03 a.m. Saturday, carrying a duffel bag. Police located William Ingram’s vehicle in the complex’s parking lot, but his mother’s white 2015 Honda Civic was missing.

During another segment of police body camera footage, the defendant was asked how he got to Washington D.C., and he responded, “I drove my mom's car,” according to the criminal complaint.

The vehicle, a white 2015 Honda Civic, with Pennsylvania Registration KTV-2098, remains missing. Anyone with information should contact the Northampton Township Police Department at 215-322-6111 or Bucks County Detectives at 215-348-6354 or Bucksda.org.

This case was investigated by Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Northampton Township Police Department, with help from the Metropolitan D.C. Police Department. This case is assigned for prosecution to Deputy District Attorney Marc J. Furber and Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Reckner.

Media Contact: Manuel Gamiz Jr., 215.348.6298, mgamiz@buckscounty.org.

Criminal charges are allegations subject to proof in court. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.