A 51-year-old man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to beating and killing his 82-year-old mother inside her condominium in Bucks County.
William Ingram was sentenced Wednesday to 30 to 64 years behind bars for what prosecutors described as a brutal and senseless crime. According to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, Ingram pleaded guilty in December to third-degree murder, aggravated assault, abuse of a corpse, theft-related offenses, weapons charges, cruelty to animals, and drug charges.
Surveillance, Confession and Discovery
In the early morning hours of June 15, 2024, a neighbor in Holland, a suburb of Philadelphia, reported hearing loud banging and later observed Ingram running from the condo shirtless. Later that morning, he left the residence in his mother’s white Honda Civic.
Authorities say Ingram drove roughly 160 miles to Washington, where he allegedly attacked a police officer and made multiple incriminating statements, including telling officers and hospital staff, “I killed my mother.”
After being alerted by D.C. police, Bucks County authorities conducted a welfare check at the home on Beacon Hill Drive. Officers discovered blood on a windowsill and throughout the residence. Inside, furniture was overturned and stacked atop Dolores Ingram’s body, which was partially concealed under household items. She had suffered severe head trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators also found a shattered aquarium with two dead lizards, a hunting-style knife near the victim’s head, large amounts of marijuana, cash, and psychedelic mushrooms inside the home.
Emotional Sentencing Hearing
Common Pleas Judge Stephen A. Corr described the killing as an “unspeakable crime,” telling Ingram, “She wasn’t giving up on you, but you gave up on her.”
Prosecutors said Dolores Ingram had devoted much of her life to caring for her son. Family members addressed the court during sentencing, sharing the lasting trauma and grief caused by her death.
Dolores Ingram was remembered in her obituary as a kind, compassionate, and generous mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend.
