A man in Florida killed his mother after she allegedly asked him to help her die.
According to the New York Daily News, Richard Guyton Mathews, 62, kept his secret after his mother, 88-year-old Mary Shaw Mathews, died in February.
On Feb. 21, the man called police and said he found his mother dead in their Palm Coast residence. According to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office news release, the eldery woman was found in a living room chair with no sign of physical trauma.
However, days later at the Lohman Funeral Home, a "highly intoxicated" Mathews admitted to killing his mother at her request.
Mathews allegedly told funeral home employees that he tried to strangle her to death, but after failing, gave her too many sleeping pills, the Daily News said.
After an employee notified police, an autopsy was performed on the woman's body. A final exam demonstrated she died of strangulation and had "several medications" in her system when she died.
Mathews was then brought into a police station for questioning and took full responsibility for his mother's death, the sheriff's office said.
He was arrested on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter.
In January, William Dresser, 88, made headlines after he fatally shot his wife, Francis, 86, in an attempted murder-suicide plot. Dresser told authorities that his wife was paralyzed after an accident that happened two weeks ago and no longer wanted to live.
He had recently purchased the small-caliber handgun with four bullets -- "two for his wife and then two for him," the affidavit said.
