A New York woman fatally stabbed her elderly mother on a quaint block in Poughkeepsie on Monday afternoon — with the crime scene straight out of TV’s “Law & Order,’’ cops and neighbors said.
Olga Hinds-Coley, 78, was found knifed in the chest inside the private house on tree-lined Oak Crescent around 1:20 p.m., the Poughkeepsie Police Department said.
First responders treated Hinds-Coley’s grave injuries, but she could not be saved, authorities said.
A 50-year-old woman is accused of knifing her 78-year-old mother to death upstate, cops said. Rockland Video ProductionsHinds-Coley’s daughter, 50-year-old Denise Gilpin, was identified as a person of interest as investigators probed the case, cops said.
Gilpin was arrested and charged with second-degree murder early Tuesday, after detectives collected evidence and conducted interviews that connected her to the slaying, police said.
A neighbor told News 12 that the crime scene “was literally like an episode of ‘Law & Order.’
“Like, everyone was all over the place,” local resident Carlos Marzano told the network. “It’s the textbook, I never thought it would happen.”
The motive for the murder on tree-lined Oak Crescent in Poughkeepsie was not immediately known. Rockland Video ProductionsGilpin was arraigned in Poughkeepsie City Court and ordered held without bail, cops said.
The motive for the domestic murder was not known by Tuesday.
