The Florida mother allegedly stabbed within the neck by her knife-wielding teenage son over the weekend posted a haunting ultimate message on Instagram the day earlier than her ugly homicide.
Catherine “Cathy” Griffith, 39, was discovered lifeless in her Auburndale residence by cops who had been referred to as by her son, Collin.
Cops arrived to search out her lifeless, with a knife wound to her neck, and the 17-year-old coated in her blood standing in entrance of the home.
“That outdated acquainted physique ache, the snaps from the identical little breaks in your soul. You realize when it’s time to go…Typically, givin’ up is the sturdy factor,” Catherine Griffith eerily captioned an Instagram put up with lyrics from Taylor Swift’s “It’s Time to Go” with a picture of a distant footbridge main right into a forest.
Glad instances with Collin are seen in lots of posts on his mother’s feed, together with one from Might 5, the place he’s pictured in entrance of a bow-clad automobile.
“Glad early commencement current!!! Congratulations Collin in your model new 2024 VW Jetta!!! I like you and am so pleased with you!!!”
A sequence of posts from the Fourth of July weekend reveals the smiling mom and son galavanting round Washington, DC, the place they took within the fireworks on the Nationwide Mall and even toured the White Home.
In lots of images, the pair pose in the identical place: Cathy in entrance, Collin proper behind her, squinting by means of chunky plastic black-frame glasses.
“I’ve realized a few of the hardest classes in my 30’s however I’m vowing that my thirty ninth yr shall be a yr of residing life to its fullest,” she wrote on Sept. 5, the day after her thirty ninth birthday.
Deputies arriving on the scene Sunday stated that Collin confirmed “zero emotion” after allegedly killing his mom.
Neighbors say that they noticed him seize Cathy by the hair and pull her into the home as she repeatedly pleaded, “Let me go” earlier than her physique was found.
Collin advised police that he and his mom had been within the midst of a protracted bodily struggle, which resulted in her falling onto the knife — fatally lacerating her throat.
Nevertheless, he rapidly requested for a lawyer when investigators pressed him on the incongruities of his story with the proof on the scene.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd described the scene as “cold-blooded homicide.”
Collin had a historical past of abusing his mom, attacking her a number of instances — together with “stomping” on her — which resulted within the teen being held for psychological well being considerations.
Upon launch from that stint within the state’s care, Collin allegedly threatened to kill himself or Cathy.
Cathy’s demise comes roughly a yr and a half after Collin was charged with fatally capturing his father, Charles, of their Lincoln County, Okla., residence on Feb. 14, 2023.
Nobody else was residence on the time. The then-15-year-old then advised police that his father had cornered him in the home and, in an act of self-defense, he shot him as soon as within the chest and as soon as within the head.
The homicide cost was dropped after Oklahoma authorities couldn’t discover proof that disputed Collin’s declare of self-defense, Judd stated.
Cathy Griffith shared a compilation of images of her and Collin with Charles — together with a shot of his gravestone on Aug. 25.
“We broke the sample however the sample nonetheless broke us all into items. I nonetheless don’t remorse leaving. I remorse not leaving sooner,” a caption over the images learn.
Collin is being charged with first-degree homicide, kidnapping and violation of a no-contact order. The PCSO requested he be tried as an grownup.
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