A 39-year-old man
is accused of beating and strangling his 71-year-old father to death in what
police have described as "one of the most brutal crime scenes they've ever
come across".
NBC reported that
the accused, Leighton Dorey IV has been held without bail in after allegedly
bludgeoning his father, Leighton Dory III to death on Tuesday (30 May).
He was found dead
by his wife after she returned home to their Rancho Santa Fe house in San Diego
county after running errands.
The prosecutor
said that the wife found her husband dead only 15 minutes after a short phone
call during which he said his son was there. She and Dorey had been fearful
before, the prosecutor said.
The
victim's previous wife is thought to live in Pennsylvania and prosecutors say
she bought the accused, her son, a jeep and paid for his ticket to San Diego.
He is thought to have been living in France for most of the last few years
before the sudden return to California.
The
prosecutor added that the relationship between father and son had been
"fractious." The victim's injuries were so severe that the district
attorney will ask for a torture charge to be brought.
Preliminary
hearings are expected to start 15 June - the accused Dorey was not given bail
as the prosecutor said there was risk he would attempt to flee.
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