A 42-year-old man in Pennsylvania was arrested this week for allegedly torturing and killing his 67-year-old mother-in-law inside their family home.
William Emilio Torres Gautier was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault — fear of imminent serious bodily injury, terroristic threats with intent to terrorize another, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and abuse of a corpse in the slaying of Lourdes Ramos Baez.
According to a press release from the Northern York County Regional Police Department, officers on Tuesday afternoon responded to a call regarding a “disturbance” at a home in the 100 block of South Main Street in Dover PA, about 100 miles west of Philadelphia.
When police arrived, they found Gautier, his wife and their two small children in the rear of the home.
While speaking to Gautier, his wife was seen signaling for help, police said.
“As officers attempted to speak to the female, Gautier intervened and pushed a section of wooden fence at officers, striking one of them,” the release states. “The officers took Gautier into custody after a brief struggle.”
During the struggle, police say Gautier pushed and spit on an officer, then broke the squad car’s window and camera system.
In an interview with investigators, Gautier’s wife said she woke up in the early morning hours of Tuesday to Gautier going “ballistic." She said he then kicked in the door to her mom’s bedroom, and she could hear both of them screaming. The wife grabbed their two young children and went outside as she continued to hear her mother screaming, the report states.
The wife and children reportedly remained outside for several hours. She told police that Gautier told them they were not allowed to return to the house because he was “fixing things” and “using Clorox." The previous evening, he reportedly told his wife that he planned to kill Ramos to “take all of her money,” police wrote in the report.
Gautier is being held in the York County Jail without bond.
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William Emilio Torres Gautier was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault — fear of imminent serious bodily injury, terroristic threats with intent to terrorize another, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and abuse of a corpse in the slaying of Lourdes Ramos Baez.
According to a press release from the Northern York County Regional Police Department, officers on Tuesday afternoon responded to a call regarding a “disturbance” at a home in the 100 block of South Main Street in Dover PA, about 100 miles west of Philadelphia.
When police arrived, they found Gautier, his wife and their two small children in the rear of the home.
While speaking to Gautier, his wife was seen signaling for help, police said.
“As officers attempted to speak to the female, Gautier intervened and pushed a section of wooden fence at officers, striking one of them,” the release states. “The officers took Gautier into custody after a brief struggle.”
During the struggle, police say Gautier pushed and spit on an officer, then broke the squad car’s window and camera system.
In an interview with investigators, Gautier’s wife said she woke up in the early morning hours of Tuesday to Gautier going “ballistic." She said he then kicked in the door to her mom’s bedroom, and she could hear both of them screaming. The wife grabbed their two young children and went outside as she continued to hear her mother screaming, the report states.
The wife and children reportedly remained outside for several hours. She told police that Gautier told them they were not allowed to return to the house because he was “fixing things” and “using Clorox." The previous evening, he reportedly told his wife that he planned to kill Ramos to “take all of her money,” police wrote in the report.
Gautier is being held in the York County Jail without bond.
Man charged with torture and murder of mother-in-law after wife mouthed 'help me' to cops
William Emilio Torres Gautier is accused of torturing and murdering his mother-in-law, found with her head wrapped in duct tape, stabbed in the back with scissors, and wire hangers around her neck.
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