A Sotheby’s realtor with a blossoming career was bludgeoned to death by her stepson in their gated community in New Jersey, authorities say.
Forty-eight-year-old Irma Daniels was found dead in her home in Cresskill on Wednesday, when police responded to a 911 call to the townhouse she shared with her husband, attorney John Daniels. At the time, authorities said she appeared to have suffered blunt-force trauma.
On Thursday, police made the shocking arrest of her stepson, 30-year-old John Daniels Jr., charging him with murder, weapons offenses, hindering apprehension by suppression and hindering apprehension by providing false information, according to NJ.com. Police said he had hit his stepmother with a baseball bat before fleeing the home. His father identified him as the killer, local outlet the Daily Voice reported.
