Today's case is one of those stories that sounds more like a movie than real life once you hear the details.One morning in November 2004, court clerk Peter Porco stumbled out of bed and went about his morning routine like usual. As he picked up a newspaper and ate his breakfast, he seemed to be completely unaware of the fact that he had been savagely attacked a few hours earlier… and his wife Joan was still in bed, clinging to life. Peter had almost gotten ready to the point of leaving for work.
It was not until his co-workers began to worry as Peter did not show up to work that the gruesome scene inside the Porco home was revealed. Peter - now dead… while his wife Joan was found upstairs, barely alive. Both had been hit in the head multiple times with an ax.
Before Joan was rushed into the hospital, a detective was able to question her and get the name of the suspect:
Christopher Porco, the couple's 21-year-old son.
Soon enough, the investigation began to reveal disturbing details of Christopher's life and the insidious web of lies he had weaved to take advantage of his own parents.
However, when the only witness to the crime, Joan Porco, woke up from a coma, she changed her story. According to her, Christopher was innocent. But in the end, was the mother's love enough to save the son from conviction?
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