A Long Island City woman is facing a murder charge for stabbing her 84-year-old mother to death on Long Island Thanksgiving Eve, police said.
Suffolk County Police responded to a call Wednesday, shortly after 9 p.m. following a report of a stabbing victim on Carmen Court in Dix Hills, police said. When officers arrived to the scene they allegedly found the home's resident, 84-year-old Jospehine Bekatoros, stabbed to death.
Homicide Squad detectives located Bekatoros’ daughter, Diana Bekatoros, 51, at her home on Center Boulevard. in Long Island City,
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WATCH HEREDiana Bekatoros has been charged with murder in the second degree. She was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Central Islip.
Attorney information was not immediately available.
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