Who Is Verity Beck? Woman Dismemberied Her Parents
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Reid and Miriam Beck were murdered and dismembered at their Abington, Pennsylvania, home, according to allegations made against Verity Beck. They were allegedly shot in the head by the 49-year-old, who then tried to dismember their bodies.
Beck was being held without bond at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility when he appeared in court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing. She is accused of both first- and third-degree murder.
“This is somebody that is dismembering her mother and father and putting body parts in trash cans. So, clearly, she’s trying to get rid of the evidence,” Kevin Steele, Montgomery County District Attorney, said at a press conference.
Beck resided with her parents in the Jenkintown neighbourhood of Abington Township, a suburb located about 12 miles north of Philadelphia, in their home in the 1100 block of Beverly Road. She was there when police arrived at the house on Tuesday after receiving a call from a worried relative.
According to Steele, when police arrived on the site, they saw a dead person “tightly wrapped in a white bedsheet” as well as evidence of another death inside the house. He stated that both victims were “in varying degrees of dismemberment” and that a chainsaw was found close to one of the bodies.
According to Steele, when police arrived on the site, they saw a dead person “tightly wrapped in a white bedsheet” as well as evidence of another death inside the house. He stated that both victims were “in varying degrees of dismemberment” and that a chainsaw was found close to one of the bodies.
Newspapers had reportedly been accumulating outside the residence, according to local reports quoting police sources. The last time family members spoke to Beck’s parents was on January 7, and according to authorities, during that time, Beck may have been messaging from their phones.
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Tuesday evening, earlier in the day, Beck’s brother had visited the residence, according to Philadelphia television station WPVI-TV. He reportedly begged his sister to call the police after witnessing what appeared to be a body, but she replied she needed “more time.” After that, he went back home and made his own police call.
The killings’ motive is unknown, according to the authorities. However, they claimed to several media sources that when cops searched the house, they discovered a sizable safe in a bedroom that had drill marks on it, suggesting that someone without access had been trying to break in.
Beck resided in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, where her parents had a vacation property before returning to live with them, according to documents. Before requesting a fee waiver to file for bankruptcy in 2020, she was employed as a beach tag inspector, according to the Daily Beast.
Between 1998 and 2018, Miriam Beck, 72, worked as a school nurse at Lower Moreland High School, close to Jenkintown. The school sent the following statement to WPVI-TV: “At this moment, our thoughts and sympathies are with the Beck family.
