Court docs: Woman shot her son ‘five or six times’ before dumping his body off a bridge


SPOKANE, Wash.– The Spokane County Superior Court launched brand-new court files that expose information about Christine Catelli’s supposed shooting of her son, Chase Catelli.

She confessed the shooting to her bro, William, stating she had actually done this simply before going into drug rehab 5 months earlier. William called police.

According to the files, Christine confessed to shooting Chase 5 or six times as he sat on the sofa of her sweetheart, Thomas McKinlay, in Spangle.

Throughout a taped interview, Catelli informed investigators McKinlay was not house at the time of the shooting however assisted her get rid of of the sofa. She likewise stated she used “peroxide” to tidy the criminal activity scene.

Catelli likewise notified investigators she used McKinlay’s van to transportation the victim’s body before dumping the remains off a bridge over Kamiache Creek in Whitman County. Investigators situated a garbage bag with the decayed remains of Chase Catelli at that place.

Investigators were informed by Christine that her son had actually threatened her numerous times with a gun before the killing.

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