A father is beheaded, a son, authorities say, sits in Bucks County Correctional Facility Wednesday accused of patricide.
Justin Mohn, 32, of Middletown Township is charged with the first-degree murder of his father. He also charged with abuse of a corpse, and possession of an instrument of crime.
Mohn was arraigned by on-call Judge Lisa J. Gaier approximately 4 am Wednesday morning January 31, 2024, with no bail set.
His preliminary hearing is slated for Judge Charles D. Jonas’ court on Thursday, February 8, 2024.
Middletown Township Police were dispatched at 7 p.m. Tuesday to 145 Upper Orchard Drive in the township’s Levittown section, for a report of a deceased male. The call to emergency dispatchers came from the victim’s wife.
While patrol officers were responding to the scene, they received further information that an elderly male was in the downstairs bathroom with a large amount of blood around him and that he had been decapitated. A machete and a large knife were located in the bathtub. Police located the male’s body in the first-floor bathroom. The deceased male’s head was located inside of a plastic bag, which was inside of a cooking pot in a first-floor bedroom next to the bathroom.
Police located bloody rubber gloves in another first-floor bedroom and more bloody rubber gloves in a trashcan next to a desk in that room.
The victim was later identified as 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn. He lived at the home with his wife and his adult son, Justin Mohn, who was missing when police arrived.
The victim’s wife told police she had last been home at approximately 2 p.m. Tuesday and her husband and son were the only ones there. She also reported that her husband’s white 2009 Toyota Corolla and her son were gone when she came home.
Police later received information about a 14-minute video posted to YouTube, which showed Justin Mohn wearing the same style rubber gloves observed at the crime scene. In the video, he picks up the decapitated head of his father, identifying him by name and as his father.
Hours later, Justin Mohn was later stopped and taken into custody by the Fort Indiantown Gap Police Department.
Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Middletown Township Police Department are investigating this case, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort Indiantown Gap Police Department. This case is assigned for prosecution to Deputy District Attorney Ashley C. Towhey and Assistant District Attorney Christine Sassane.
Mohn has no previous recorded arrests in Bucks County, according to online court records.
Click here to read the entire criminal complaint filed by investigators.
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