Irvine woman found guilty of murdering her 92-year-old mother
LA TimesThe body of Ruth Strange, 92, was discovered on Sept. 4, 2018, in the pool of her home on Vista Del Sol Drive in Huntington Beach. Prosecutors argued that Cynthia Strange, 70, was hoping to secure her inheritance and avoid paying back a debt when she went to her mother Ruth Strange’s Huntington Beach home, stabbed her in the head and hauled her across the patio to the pool. While Cynthia Strange left her cellphone at home in Irvine on the night of the killing, apparently to confuse detectives, surveillance cameras put her in her mother’s Huntington Beach neighborhood, the prosecutor said. “She’s desperate for money, but she doesn’t want to work.” Hamilton invoked the 5th Amendment rather than testify at trial, and Judge Lewis Clapp told jurors not to speculate about why. “None of involve stabbing, drowning — the way Ruth was killed in this case.” Cynthia Strange faces 25 years to life in prison when Judge Clapp sentences her on July 12.
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