The case moved from a welfare check in Wisconsin to an arrest in Ogden, Utah, within hours according to investigators.

MOUNT MORRIS, Wis. — A 36-year-old man is accused of fatally stabbing his 75-year-old grandmother in their shared Waushara County home, then fleeing to Utah, where police arrested him the next day after relatives told deputies he had confessed.

The case drew attention because investigators say the accusation was supported almost immediately by a chain of statements to family members, a text message, and physical evidence found inside the home. Randy Jenks now faces a first-degree intentional homicide charge in Wisconsin in the death of Patricia Mae Glenn, and the case has moved from an emergency welfare check to jail custody, extradition and a high cash bond.

According to the criminal complaint, concern began building when Glenn’s relatives could not reach her and asked authorities to check on her at the home on Strawberry Circle in the Town of Mount Morris. Deputies responded around 7:45 p.m. March 8. Inside, they found Glenn dead on the floor with dried blood around her. Investigators later said Jenks had been living with his grandmother for more than a year. Before officers reached the house, family members told deputies that Jenks had already said what happened. One relative told police that Jenks said, “I stabbed grandma in the living room, on the floor.” Another family member reported that he said Glenn had pushed him “too far.”

Investigators say the statements did not stop with phone calls. The complaint says Jenks also texted a family member that he had stabbed his grandmother in the neck and ran because he was scared. During a search of the home, officers found a folding knife covered in blood on a table. Relatives also told police Jenks might have gone to a family member’s home in Ogden, Utah, and that he had a history of mental health issues. That information quickly gave the investigation a direction. Instead of searching broadly across Wisconsin, deputies were able to focus on a possible destination several states away. Authorities have not publicly described any earlier dispute inside the home or said what, if anything, led up to the stabbing beyond the alleged statement that Glenn had pushed him too far.

The geography of the case sharpened its impact. Mount Morris is a rural part of Waushara County, and the killing itself was discovered not through a 911 call from the house but through a family-requested welfare check. That detail gives the case a quieter, more unsettling timeline: concern, unanswered contact, deputies arriving at a home that relatives knew well, and then a homicide investigation. By the next day, the search had expanded to Ogden. Utah officers, working with Wisconsin authorities, located Jenks at a home near Fowler Avenue. A person there reportedly told investigators he had arrived around 2 p.m. March 8 and that she overheard him say he had killed his grandmother. Police body-camera video later showed Jenks surrendering without incident.

The procedural path has continued to move forward in Wisconsin. Jenks was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, a felony that carries the most serious penalties under state law. After his arrest in Utah, he was held there while Wisconsin authorities sought his return. He was later booked into the Waushara County Jail. At a bail hearing, a judge set cash bond at $2 million and ordered that Jenks not leave the state and not possess dangerous weapons. Court records cited by local reports listed a formal initial appearance for early April. Prosecutors have not announced any additional charges, and authorities have not publicly released a fuller account of forensic findings, autopsy details or a motive beyond the alleged admissions described in the complaint.

For the people around the case, the most striking details have been the plainness of the reported words and the speed with which they traveled through the family. The complaint describes a case pieced together through ordinary forms of contact — a phone call, a text, a relative’s warning about where a suspect might go — before police ever made an arrest. Ogden officers, according to local reports, were able to take Jenks into custody calmly. In Wisconsin, the case has settled into its next phase, where short, stark allegations in a complaint will be tested in court and the public record will expand as hearings continue.

The case now stands at the charging stage, with Jenks jailed in Wisconsin and future court proceedings expected to determine how prosecutors present the evidence and whether any new details about the killing inside Glenn’s home become public.

Author note: Last updated April 7, 2026.