'Model' dad suspect in mother's death
'Model' dad suspect in mother's death LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man once honored as a model father has been indicted in the death of his 87-year-old mother.
A grand jury indictment unsealed Friday charges William Rundle with murdering his mother, Willa, who vanished in the mid-1990s.
Rundle, 57, already faced murder charges in the August death of his 63-year-old wife, Shirley, whose bludgeoned body was found in a remote area near Susanville.
While he confessed to that crime after his October arrest in Florida, William Rundle told police that his wife killed his mother with morphine tablets, then disposed of the body without telling him the details.
Although the mother's body has never been found, Clark County prosecutors say there's sufficient circumstantial evidence that Rundle murdered her and collected her Social Security checks.
William Rundle, a former security guard, first came to the public's attention when a Las Vegas organization honored him as a model father in 1986, after his son submitted a school essay titled "My Dad is the Best."
A year later, his 11-year-old son, Richie, was killed while pushing a friend from the path of a drunken driver.
Prosecutors theorize that William Rundle wanted his wife dead because she was going to notify authorities that he was wrongfully taking his mother's money. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Also there was the mother and son grifters ... Sante and Kenneth Kimes who where indicted and convicted for the disappearnace of that older wealthy woman in New York. Her body was never found as well as a number of other people who disappeared who knew these two.