Prosecutors said William Ingram beat Dolores Ingram inside their Holland condominium, covered her body with furniture and other household items, and fled to Washington, D.C.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — William Michael Ingram was sentenced on Feb. 18 to 30 to 64 years in state prison for killing his 82-year-old mother in their Holland condominium in June 2024, then stealing her car and fleeing to Washington, prosecutors said.

The sentence closed the criminal case in Bucks County nearly 20 months after Dolores Ingram was found dead inside the home she shared with her son in Northampton Township. Ingram, 51, had pleaded guilty on Dec. 15, 2025, to third-degree murder and a string of related offenses, including aggravated assault, abuse of a corpse, theft and drug charges. The punishment grew after Judge Stephen A. Corr agreed to stack the counts one after another, giving prosecutors a longer total term and underscoring the severity of the killing.

Authorities said the case began in the early hours of June 15, 2024, when a neighbor in the Holland section of Northampton Township was awakened by loud banging around 1 a.m. The neighbor later reviewed outdoor surveillance footage and, according to prosecutors, saw Ingram run shirtless from the condominium at about 1:43 a.m. The footage then showed him move back toward the walkway and return to the residence. Hours later, around 10 a.m., the same camera captured him leaving again. Investigators said he then took his mother’s white Honda Civic and headed south. License plate readers later placed the car leaving the area in Bucks County, and prosecutors said he drove roughly 160 miles to Washington. By the time police there encountered him, the homicide in Pennsylvania had not yet been discovered.

The body was found the next day after the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington contacted Bucks County authorities and asked for a welfare check at the Beacon Hill Drive condominium. Police in Northampton Township went to the home on June 16 and, while checking the outside, saw what appeared to be blood on a windowsill, according to prosecutors. An officer opened an unlocked window and saw blood smeared on nearby surfaces and furniture in disarray. Inside, officers found Dolores Ingram beneath what prosecutors described as a pile of household items that included plates, towels, linens, a blue laundry bag and a futon-style couch. Prosecutors said one officer first saw a human foot protruding from the pile and found it cold to the touch. Dolores Ingram had severe head trauma, slicing injuries and lacerations, and investigators ruled her death a homicide. Prosecutors have not publicly described a full motive in court summaries released after the plea and sentence.

The record released by prosecutors also described a chaotic scene inside the condominium. Near the victim’s head, investigators found a hunting-style fixed-blade knife, and they also found a shattered aquarium with two dead lizards and a television among the piled items, according to the district attorney’s office. Elsewhere in the home, investigators reported a large amount of blood and spatter. Prosecutors said officers also found about 6 pounds of marijuana, $53,000 in cash and gallon-sized bags containing psilocybin. Those findings led to drug counts that became part of Ingram’s guilty plea. Court officials said the plea covered third-degree murder, aggravated assault, abuse of a corpse, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, possession of an instrument of crime, cruelty to animals and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. The public summaries do not say whether investigators concluded the drugs were directly tied to the killing itself, but prosecutors said Ingram volunteered to officers in Washington that he was a drug dealer.

What happened in Washington became a critical link in the case. Prosecutors said Ingram was taken into custody there the same day after assaulting a police officer and damaging a police vehicle. While in custody, authorities said, he made repeated statements that pointed back to Bucks County. According to prosecutors and earlier reporting on the charging documents, he told officers, “I killed my mother.” Prosecutors said he later went to a hospital for a foot injury and, when staff asked for an emergency contact, replied, “Not anymore.” After giving them a phone number, he was asked who it belonged to and answered, prosecutors said, “I killed her.” Those statements prompted the call that sent Northampton Township officers to the condominium. At the time of the initial filing in 2024, Bucks County authorities said more charges were expected after the investigation developed. By late 2025, the case ended not with a trial but with a guilty plea before Corr in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.

The sentencing hearing turned on both the brutality of the crime and the family history described by prosecutors and relatives. Deputy District Attorney Monica Furber told the court that Dolores Ingram had devoted much of her life to caring for her son. “Despite the care she gave him throughout his life, he repaid her by killing her,” Furber said in court, according to the county. Furber asked for a sentence in the aggravated range and urged the judge to run the counts consecutively. Corr did that, saying the crimes justified it. Before imposing sentence, the judge addressed Ingram directly and called the homicide an “unspeakable crime.” He told the defendant, “She wasn’t giving up on you, but you gave up on her.” The sentence was longer than the murder component alone because the judge added time on the related offenses, including the drug crimes that had remained within his discretion under the negotiated plea.

Family members also spoke at the hearing, giving the court a picture of the loss left behind. Prosecutors said Dolores Ingram’s two daughters delivered victim impact statements. One daughter described her mother as a kind and generous woman whose care for others defined her life. The other said the killing continued to follow her in sleep and memory, telling the court, “I’ve had nightmares about her last moments.” In earlier local television coverage from 2024, neighbors said Dolores Ingram was known in the community, often seen outside tending flowers near the condominium. Those details gave the case a sharper local weight in the Holland neighborhood, where residents told reporters such violence was rare. Public court summaries have not identified any dispute that immediately preceded the killing, and the county’s written releases do not say whether Ingram offered an explanation at sentencing. What they do show is a case built from surveillance video, physical evidence inside the home, the stolen car’s path out of Bucks County and Ingram’s own statements after his arrest in Washington.

Ingram’s guilty plea on Dec. 15, 2025, avoided a trial and locked in a prison term on the murder count of 26 to 54 years, while leaving Corr free to add another 10 to 20 years on the drug offenses. On Feb. 18, 2026, the judge imposed the final sentence of 30 to 64 years. No further Bucks County trial proceedings were scheduled after sentencing, and the case now stands as a conviction followed by a state prison term. Any appeal or later post-conviction challenge would move on a separate track, and county summaries released after the hearing did not announce any new hearing dates.