Following a week-long bench trial, a former Bartlett man was found guilty but mentally ill in his mother's stabbing death in 2019.
Following a week-long bench trial, a former Bartlett man was found guilty but mentally ill in his mother's stabbing death in 2019.Edward Mitzelfeld, 69, was found guilty on Friday following a trial that ended on March 22. He was facing five counts of first-degree murder on May 31, 2019, and appeared in bond court. His bond was set at $5 million, with 10% to apply, according to officials. Mitzelfeld never bonded out and has remained in the DuPage County Jail since.
Investigators determined that Mitzelfeld and his mother were in the kitchen together when he stabbed her several times in the back with a kitchen knife, police say. The wounds severed her aorta and into her lungs, authorities say. After her death, Mitzelfeld called 911. "This is a tragic case that has surely taken a tremendous toll on Frances’ and Edward’s entire family," Du Page County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said.
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