‘Dressing up a skeleton’: Man killed mom then drove to sister’s house with her corpse covered in McDonald’s wrappers and ‘household goods,’ cops say

A Pennsylvania antheral allegedly murdered his parent and past drove to his sister’s location with her assemblage wrong of the car — covering it with boxes, McDonald’s wrappers and “household goods” — successful what his lawyer has likened to respectfully “dressing up a skeleton,” according to constabulary and section reports.

Kevin Ahn, 31, is charged with first-degree execution and assault, arsenic good arsenic maltreatment of a corpse, successful transportation to the decease of his mom, Hyun Ahn, 61, successful Maryland earlier this year, according to section NBC affiliate WGAL. The woman’s decease was ruled a homicide by strangulation and a traumatic encephalon injury.

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Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger told The Baltimore Sun connected Saturday that Ahn is facing execution and battle charges successful Baltimore County, wherever Hyun Ahn lived successful Owings Mills, aft allegedly sidesplitting the pistillate determination sometime successful March.

Northern Lancaster County officials accidental it was Ahn’s estranged sister successful Penn Township who reported him to constabulary aft a “suspicious incident” astatine her residence successful the 100 artifact of Fruitville Pike successful Penn Township connected March 24, according to a constabulary press release.

The pistillate allegedly told constabulary that Ahn, who is “transient and not mostly invited astatine the home,” per cops, showed up astatine her location driving their mother’s 2022 Toyota Rav 4 and was “acting weird.” The sister and her husband, who came extracurricular to face Ahn, some allegedly saw “an unresponsive idiosyncratic positioned crossed the rear spot and floor” of his vehicle, “partially covered successful household goods” and trash, according to police.

Ahn was initially charged with maltreatment of a corpse successful Lancaster County. He appeared astatine a preliminary proceeding past month, wherever officers testified that his mom had been dormant for astatine slightest 30 to 40 hours wrong of her conveyance earlier she was discovered by Ahn’s sister and husband, according to the Daily Voice.

Ahn’s lawyer argued that helium was allegedly mourning his parent successful his ain mode — arsenic if helium was “dressing up a skeleton” — not abusing her corpse, the Voice reports.

“Covered the assemblage retired of respect,” the lawyer reportedly said.