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Pennsylvania Woman is charged after shooting her parents, 73 and 72, in the head, dismembering their bodies with a chainsaw – Verity Beck, 43, then stuffed parts into trash cans

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382b2d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Verity Beck&comma; 43&comma; was charged Wednesday&comma;with two counts each&comma; of first and third-degree murder&comma; as well as possession of an instrument of crime<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382b2d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She&&num;8217&semi;s accused of shooting her elderly parents in the head&comma; dismembering their bodies with a chainsaw and stuffing them into trash cans <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382b2d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Gruesome murders that came to light after suspect&&num;8217&semi;s brother&comma; Justin Beck went to see his parents after not hearing from them since Jan&period; 7 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382b2d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Cops found bodies of Reid Beck&comma; 73&comma; and Miriam Beck&comma; 72&comma; inside their home in the Jenkintown section of Abington Township&comma; Tuesday night&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382b2d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Couple&&num;8217&semi;s daughter Verity Beck&comma; 43&comma; was arrested for double-homicide<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382b2d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>No clear motive for death but cops found a safe that someone had tried to crack in the house  <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Verity-Beck-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-428145" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"1039"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Verity Beck &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma;&comma; was charged with two counts of first-degree murder&comma; two counts of third-degree murder and other crimes in the killings of her parents Reid Beck&comma; 73&comma; and Miriam Beck&comma; 72&comma; in Montgomery County&comma; PA<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A Pennsylvania woman shot both her parents&comma; both in their early seventies&comma; in the head before using a chainsaw to dismember their bodies and partly stuff the parts in to trash cans&comma; authorities&period;<br>Police arrived at the families home on the 1100 block of Beverly Road in the Jenkintown section of Abington Township&comma; Tuesday night&comma; to find the badly decomposing bodies of her parents &&num;8211&semi; Reid Beck&comma; 73&comma; and Miriam Beck&comma; 72&period; <br>Verity Beck&comma; 43&comma; has been charged with two counts each of first and third-degree murder&comma; as well as possession of an instrument of crime&comma; in connection with their deaths&period;<br>She appeared in court Wednesday for a preliminary arraignment and was ordered held without bail&comma; criminal court records show&period; Authorities have not yet found a possible motive&period; <br>However&comma; investigators discovered a safe that someone appeared to have tried to break into in the house&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Police-investigate-death-of-Reid-Beck-and-Miriam-Beck-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-428147" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"381"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">Reid Beck&comma; 73&comma; and Miriam Beck&comma; 72&comma; were found at their Jenkintown home&comma; where Verity Black also lived<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The gruesome crime was uncovered because on Tuesday January 17&comma; at around 8 pm&comma; Justin Beck drove past his parents&&num;8217&semi; house in Abington Township&period; <br>He later told investigators that while he had received texts from his parents over the last ten days&comma; and had no other contact with them since January 7&comma; whereas he typically spoke with his mother every day&period;<br>His parents&&num;8217&semi; vehicles were parked outside the property and all the lights inside were off&comma; but he found his sister Verity&comma; who also lived there&period;<br>Justin told cops that he went back to his home and brought soup for Verity because she had complained she was ill&period; <br>Justin returned to his parents&&num;8217&semi; home at around 9&colon;30 pm and entered the property&period; In a downstairs bedroom he discovered a body on the floor covered by a bloodstained sheet&comma; according to the criminal complaint&period; <br>He assumed that the feet sticking out from the blanket belonged to his father&period;Investigators said Justin then called for Verity&comma; who met him in the living room&period;<br>During a half-hour conversation&comma; Verity told her brother that things at her home had &&num;8216&semi;been bad&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>When Justin said that they needed to contact the police&comma; Verity told him she needed &&num;8216&semi;more time&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Police-investigate-death-of-Reid-Beck-and-Miriam-Beck-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-428152" width&equals;"844" height&equals;"471"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Abington Police arrived at the house at around 10&colon;30 pm on Tuesday&period; Shortly after midnight&comma; three officers entered the residence<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Justin aware that his sister was a gun owner&comma; returned to his own home and called police&period;<br>When responding cops arrived at the house at around 10&colon;30 pm&comma; although the lights were on&comma; Verity did not respond to their attempts to make contact and refused to come to the front door&period; <br>After more police units arrived and set up a perimeter around the property&comma; a small remote-controlled robot was sent into the first floor of the home&comma; as well as a drone to look into the second-floor windows&comma; trying to locate Verity&period;<br>Eventually around midnight&comma; three officers breached thee residence&comma; to meet the odor of decomposing flesh&period;<br>Encountering Verity&comma; an officers asked&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Where are your parents&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;They are dead&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Verity replied&comma; according to the criminal complaint&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Home-of-Reid-Beck-and-Miriam-Beck-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-428154" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"478"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Abington Police arrived at the house at around 10&colon;30 pm on Tuesday&period; Shortly after midnight&comma; three officers entered the residence&period; Officers announced they were inside the building and Verity Beck approached them shortly afterwards&comma; investigators said&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The officers then discovered a human foot inside the home with a blanket covering the rest of the body&comma; investigators said&period; <br>Detectives then found the body of a decapitated man wrapped in a comforter while processing the crime scene&period;<br>They also found a furniture dolly partially underneath the body that investigators believe had been used to move the corpse&period;<br>They also found a chainsaw near the body&comma; blood on the inside of a bedroom door and two trash cans in the bedroom&comma; according to the criminal complaint&period;<br>One trash can was empty while the other was heavy&period;<br>Inside the trash the officers found a white linen covering something&period; The house was then secured and a search warrant was issued&period;<br>Their couple&&num;8217&semi;s daughter&comma; Verity Beck&comma; was charged with two counts of first-degree murder&comma; two counts of third-degree murder and other crimes in the killings of the elderly couple&period;<br>Police then handcuffed the Verity and took her away from the house&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Montgomery-County-PA-investigates-Verity-Beck-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-428146"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>A statement from Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele on the investigation into the Beck family murders<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Detectives also discovered a pillow that appeared to have been hit by bullets&comma; as well as a chainsaw&comma; and more body parts inside a trash can in the garage&period;<br>Investigators also found unread newspapers from January 7&comma; 2023&period; This was the date when their son had last heard his mother&&num;8217&semi;s voice&period;<br>The pillow most likely indicated it was placed across the parents&&num;8217&semi; faces before they were shot at close range and then savagely mutilated&period;<br>Detectives also discovered a safe with drill marks on it mounted on the wall of a second-floor bedroom with tools nearby&comma; indicating that someone without the key or combination had been trying to enter the safe&comma; according to the criminal complaint&period;<br>Investigators also searched through Verity&&num;8217&semi;s bedroom&comma; where they say they found three guns with spent rounds&comma; two of which were registered to her and one of which had no record of ownership&period;<br>Later on Wednesday&comma; a forensic pathologist identified the dismembered bodies found inside the property as that of Reid Beck and Miriam Beck&period;<br>Autopsies determined that Reid Beck and Miriam Beck&comma; both died from single gunshot wounds to the head&period; Both deaths were ruled a homicide&period;<br>Verity&&num;8217&semi;s charges mean that she is ineligible for bail in Montgomery County&comma; where she&&num;8217&semi;s being held at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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