$5 Million Bail For Alleged Mother-Murderer, Search for Body Continues
Charles McCullum, 21, allegedly dumped his mother in the Des Plaines River after hammering a knife into her with a baseball bat.
JOLIET, IL -- Before he dumped his mother's body into the Des Plaines River, Charles McCullum choked her, stabbed her so hard with one knife the blade bent, plunged a second knife into her repeatedly, and then used a baseball bat to hammer it into her her body until the handle broke, a prosecutor said during a Friday afternoon hearing.
McCullum, 21, appeared at the hearing via a closed-circuit broadcast from the Will County jail. His father, Charles McCullum Sr., stood up and stepped forward when his son came on the screen.
Another man in the gallery was ejected from the courtroom and ordered out of the courthouse after shouting an obscenity when McCullum's hearing started. About a half dozen other spectators followed the man from the courtroom.
Judge Roger Rickmon set bail at $5 million after listening to Assistant State's Attorney Peter Wilkes run through what McCullum allegedly did to get charged with the murder of his mother, 54-year-old Jeanie Parker.
Wilkes said McCullum made a videotaped statement to detectives with the Joliet police and told them that from Wednesday evening into Thursday morning, he had become "upset" with his mother, so he strangled her and left her in the house.
When he returned and saw she was still alive, Wilkes said, he stuck a knife in her but the blade bent inside her body. McCullum then took another knife and stabbed his mother repeatedly, Wilkes said.
Believing she was still alive, McCullum got his hands on a baseball bat and used it to pound the knife into Parker's body until its handle broke, Wilkes said.
McCullum then dragged his mother from her bedroom down to the garage of their 118 Fifth Ave. home, Wilkes said. He loaded Parker into her car and drove her around a while before heading for the river, then pulled her out and dropped her in the water, the prosecutor said.
Parker's body remains missing. Joliet police Cmdr. Brian Benton said McCullum told detectives he put his mother in the water south of the Jefferson Street Bridge. Fire Department divers and a Chicago Police Department helicopter were employed in Friday's search, Benton said.
A neighbor, concerned by McCullum's erratic behavior and the fact she did not see Parker Thursday morning as she always had in mornings past, called police, Wilkes said. Officers arrived and followed a blood trail from the garage to Parker's bedroom, where they found blood on the floor, the walls, a television stand and on curtains, the prosecutor said.
Police determined that one resident of Parker's home, McCullum's brother Antwone McCullum, 26, had been and still was in the hospital, Wilkes said. Officers later found Charles McCullum driving his mother's Dodge and took him into custody, he said.
Public defender Kurt Leinweber warned McCullum not to talk to anyone at the county jail and told him an investigator from his office would be over to interview him.
As the hearing ended, Charles McCullum Sr. asked Judge Rickmon for permission to speak. Rickmon refused the request, but the older McCullum still shouted to his son that he loved him.
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BeautyIsHerName
5:24 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
THIS IS SO SAD
JOLIET IS JUS GETTING WORSE
YOUR MOTHER DOE...Y...
R.I.P MS. PARKER
Flora Dora
7:01 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
What a dreadful story. I hope my son would never be so "upset"!
stella
10:42 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
This is a perfect example of mental health ignored!!
Jim Nolan
11:53 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Stella, you are a moron! The problem is in the black community!.....hear anything about a father there?
Francis' Best Friend
6:51 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
The answer is yes.... there is a couple sentences about the father in there. Take off the white pointy hood and maybe you could read the whole story and see that.
Anita McCray2802@comc
1:29 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
So this is a racial issue? Are you telling me that there is no problem int he white community when the theater shooter or newtowne shooter went off? The white guy that killed the very grandparents that picked him up from the jail and gave him a party? I am thinking people need to stop with the race is the reason bull****. Is it a stretch to think that the father was there an maybe was out at the time? Where was the father of the Newtowne killer?
Mike Schnare
1:40 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Jim its a people thing not a black thing. People are savages from all races!
Toma Eddy
2:57 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Last I knew there was only one race on eath. "The Human Race".
Theresa Rose
5:02 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
It has nothing to do with the "black" community. We have seen the same thing in the past committed by whites. You have shown your self to be ignorant,as the father was in tthe courtroom according to the article. Also you sound like a bigot.
Miz Fit
5:44 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Stella may not have heard anything but she could clearly read about it. It's written in paragraph #2. Or were you in such a hurry to pull on the white hood that you missed it.
GlockG22Shoots40s
9:06 am on Monday, March 25, 2013
Jim, you are the moron here. I've never heard of a white or hispanic family getting divorced or having children out of wedlock.... putz.
Fred
12:12 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Jim, you are a moron!!! The problem is ignorant people like you. This problem is everywhere especially in your community!!!!
Keyshia Wess
2:14 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Lord Jesus! Give me strength. This just breaks my heart. How can a child kill their parents. I don't know what is going on in this city. I pray that they find Ms Parker. And I pray that God be with the family through this difficult time.
Theresa Rose
5:04 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
And how can a parent kill a child? e have seen a lot of that recently also.
Shelly evans
5:48 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
It is not just the Black community doing this type of thing. It happen with the white community too. I knew the mother and son very well. Cj did not seem to have a mental problem to me but I did not live with him kids are different when they come to your house as they should be. We dont know what went on behind close doors. But i do know nobody deserves to die like this especially at the hands of their own child. Rip Miss Jeanie Parker
Gina
6:46 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
That poor woman, may there be peace for her family soon. The story just gets worse each time I read on it. The city is getting worse!! I can't believe the council approved store front gambling. Really?
Francis' Best Friend
6:48 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Also Jim, if you read the story.... The kid's father was in the room and shouted "I love you" to him even after the judge told him he could not speak.
cicly
12:32 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Jim knows that, he was just trying to incite
J3L2404
8:36 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Never point a finger at one group of anything. I had a friend that moved to Elgin and was stabbed to death by an intruder within no time of living there, a day or so before her birthday. Horror is everywhere....I am white as Wonder Bread and do not EVER think color or ethnicity should be a factor. Just because the area we live in? Joliet is about as mixed as a fruit salad. I live and work within 2 blocks of where all of this is going on and I also pray they may find Ms. Parker to give her loved ones peace and put the neighborhood at ease before the next tragedy. Oh yes..... and what was it last time? 4 crazy ass white kids on Hickory.... If you have a beef with society, family, or anyone else, just end your own life before ruining scores of
others.
Kelly O'
9:18 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Jim Nolan, Jim Nolan, Jim Nolan! You have so much to learn. Please read the entire story before you comment. If you don't understand, have someone read it to you. That was a totally racist and uninformed comment.
cicly
9:35 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
I heard from students the problem was Drugs and that's what possessed him to do such a horrific thing..a drug called Molly, that is a mixture of every drug together..xstacy cannibus crack...probably other drugs too..thats where the problem lies, everyone especially our kids wants to escape and drugs is the door they use. The latest songs make these mind altering drugs popular to use, they repeat snd glorify it over and over again in their songs..."I be gone off that molly"...No matter what parents around what color. I just keep praying
Renee LovinVincent Steward
9:48 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Jim Nolan where was your comment when them four white people killed them two boys two months ago..exactly its not the "black community" so "get yo life" before you start commenting!!!
Reality Bytes!
2:24 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Do you see any white people sticking up for them? Do you see anyone sticking up for them? NO, because they are low life trash, and we know it. They deserve nothing better than death.
Reality Bytes!
9:59 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Sounds to me like someone had some real pent up rage and decided to take it out on his momma... Why do blacks seem to turn to violence so easily? I'm talking about, the rest of us have a built in tolerance, but black people want to attack immediately when confronted. Like there is no control over their emotions, they just react... I'm not being racist, its an observation... Is it something that is branded into black people from a young age to just kill whatever is making you uncomfortable? Is it the lack of a solid family unit? Is it the YEARS of oppression that are instilled in your very nature from birth that is haunting your every moment? Can someone explain?
Reality Bytes!
10:02 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
You can reply with all the hate you'd like, but black people, you've really got some problems. I'm not saying everyone else doesn't, but the violence in black communities is a lot higher than in any white or latino communities I have ever been to....
Theresa Rose
5:12 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
You really do not know what you are talking about. I have seen white people so enraged it was impossible to deal with them. I almost got slugged at a convention that I worked because the son of this white man did not win a contest. I had to send someone for security and have the so called father rejected
Reflection
10:03 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Some people need a damn reality check!
john
11:01 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
God have mercy on this boy soul. What is this world coming to? Two lives gone now just over a moment of anger. This aint a white or black thing cause i done seen evil done by every race. The devil is busy trying to win soul rather its drugs or this crazy music. Kids are listening to. Stop the violence
carl ray
11:17 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Reality Bytes should just look up the term" mother stabbed or killed by son" and see how many of the SON'S are white. If black people possess a violence problem, it came from white people's example. The majority of violent acts are from white people. Just do the research and stop spouting non sense statements. Get informed and stop being ignorant.
Reality Bytes!
2:26 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Again, blame the white man. Our example? Who's ignorant? Lets hear your research... Don't spout what you heard on TV, list some real facts...
Jamie
11:28 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Black people got problems huh? So were you saying this when the white boy in Connecticut killed 26 people, including his own mother? Oh, that was just an isolated random incident right? Or what about the crazy white man that sat in a movie viewing of Batman, and opened fire and killed all those people? I'm sure he's mentally unstable, and nothing was branded into him from a young age that made him kill. Stop making stupid comments and asking dumb questions. Focus on not becoming or raising a serial killer in your own home. How about that Reality Bytes?!!
mike Hall
12:12 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
So if whites do it,it makes all ok then right?
Reality Bytes!
2:28 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Another one.... Blame the white people, turn it around and take the focus off of the black guy... typical!
john
11:56 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
I have white black and brown friends so people need to stop pointing fingers at each other and just find away to stop all this violents that going on in our country rather its Chicago or joliet gangs drugs and so called gangster entertainment that we let are kids look up to
cicly
12:26 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Absolutely!!
no thanks
12:14 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
this issue is not limited to a certain race....upbringing or anything else that ppl have mentioned here. not too long ago a son in plainfield beat his mother to death and staged it as break in and attempted rape....there were no similarities as far as what little stereotypical group that son belonged in. ppl need to think before they start throwing this nonsense around. how can we come up with a solution when we are stuck on blaming all these negative stereotypes? soceity is scared of the kids. when kids get in trouble in school they kick them out maybe even call the police. for those over 35 ish....what happened when your peers got in trouble in school? what happened when you came home?
cicly
12:31 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
EXACTLY!!
Pierre
1:15 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
There are 2 cases in the last few weeks in Hong Kong. One young man killed both his parents and (with the help of a friend) dismembered their bodies. Another one (again with the help of a friend) killed his father and nearly killed his mother. She was covered in blood and they left her to die.
Renae
12:38 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Interesting how when a black person commits a violent act it's - "blacks are violent", "black fathers are absent", "black communities have problems" but when a white person commits unspeakable acts like mass murdering children, shooting up college campuses and all of these murder-suicides it's - "the country needs to address mental health" or "the country needs to address gun control"...WTH. The Connecticut shooter was living with his single mom and I never once heard anyone ask where his father was. SMH @ all the internet racist that know that would never go on national TV or stand up at their jobs or their church and make such ignorant racists comments.
Reality Bytes!
2:30 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Yet again, turn it around and focus on white people... Typical!
Andy Barcellona
12:46 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
So the father shouts to him that he loves him. Can't imagine what kind of household that was. Great example for the need of birth control.
Brenda B Hill
1:05 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Please everyone read your comments before you write them, most of you look like half witts and I am not saying any race! This sounds like it was done due to DRUGS!!
Bottom line! I can say I am so glad and praise the lord my children never got into them!
adam davis
1:08 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
this is just sad nobody should bring color into the situation this seems like this boy has soe issues that his own mother may have not known about and took it out on her as she made him mad for some reason thats something he has to deal with for the rest of his life but as i said nobody knew what was going on inside this boy head cause it seems like he missing a few crayons out of his box!
john
1:10 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Its only one race to blame for how the world is and that's the human race! Pointing fingers aint getting us no where. And yes charles mccullum sr should always love his son despite what his son did that a real father
JOHN
1:16 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Prior to the flood it is written, " Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and full of violence." Genesis c
hapter 6 vs. 11. ABSOLUTE SAVAGERY.
Rj schnitz
1:28 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Here is a little research for you.----- National FBI Crime Report for the year 2010.---- White population in U S is 72.4% of the total population,and they committed 46.4% of total murders. Black population in US is 12.6% of the total population,and they committed 49.7% of the total murders.Inform yourself as to the meaning of per- capita ,and you will see which race is more violent.
Raymond Gibson
1:42 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Well put.
Reality Bytes!
2:09 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Nearly half the murders were by blacks who make up 1/6 of the population....Sounds to me like blacks ARE more violent than whites...
B Wilson
2:02 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
This guy had a huge problem going around in his head when he commited this dreadful murder, and he is going to have to pay a huge price for the satifaction he got for dealing with his problem in the way he did. He knew exactly what he was doing, nothing mental here, just making the wrong decision on how to solve it.
Janice Carpino
2:05 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Put him down like the low life he is, can't even say like an animal, because animals wouldn't do something like this. Get him off this earth so we all safe. Feel so sorry for the mother, what she must have gone throu.
cicly
2:09 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Really there is a history of mental illness in this family..the mother was helping him seek treatment...then u mix mental instability with illegal drugs. Not an excuse just facts
darla black lopez
2:21 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Rip. May you be happy in gods kingdom! It sad that the state makes it almost impossable for indivuals to get mental heath treatment.even at will county on ella street. The waiting list are 2 to 6 mos long.then they want u to either have insurance or medical card.so when do these young men do with no help. Mental health issues are serious ! Unless u been there or have a family member suffering from these issues its really hard to understand.iam justifying this mans actions iam only saying without help there's never a good outcome.I prayers are with this family for such a tragity.
cicly
2:27 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Why is it so important to include race in the comments it is so irrelevant .. this was a brutal murder. Death killing murder comes in every shape color creed denomination. Lets ne real. Yes black peopleor kill red people kill,yellow people kill White people kill
Chris
2:29 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
5 million dollar bail ? Judge could have set bail at 20 bucks he'd still be stuck in jail
darla black lopez
2:32 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Shame on everyone making this a race thing,there will be no place for u in heaven ! God lives in the gray area ! No color ! I pray for my grandchildren being raise in a very diversed family that they never have to read or see such hatred. We live in 2013 ! Wake up ! Oh you really auto try living in the gray area its a wonderful place to live!
MaryMRevis
2:38 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Let's ALL hope this piece of slime gets the proper and due punishment he so richly deserves...the death penalty. I see NO reason why taxpayers should foot a bill, feeding him and such, if he gets a life sentence. If he should want to make peace with God? then so be it... but the death penalty is the only viable option here. OH and to the comment Jim Nolan posted? A troll's stink is never to far from stories like this. Ignore him folks. The ignorant fool is only here to stir crap.
really
2:43 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Why the race card..did these so called race callers say anything when the fat white guy stab his mother drove around with her in the trunk...then put her in the garbage dump..or the Aryan guy who walked up to the warden in Colorado home killed him..he also killed a hard working worker...for no reason..or the low life trailer trash who killed his kid..his low life wife didn't do anything to stop him...or these sick child molestation creeps in naperville Plainfield...or the sick bus driver who gave the girl a note before she got off the bus. Or the 4 white kids who know and murdered their own friends...and you say racist crap about black people...if it isn't race then what is it...get a life...bring back the death penalty.
Variety is Good
2:45 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Bad things happen to all races. If you watch the news you would know that all around the world chaos is happening. I live in Oklahoma and theres been at least 10 murders just this week. Sometimes you can't tell if a person has that type of mental issues. Not everyone whose a loner is a killer and so on. We have to deal with what we've been dealt and show compassion for those left behind and understand their needs. There will always be white, black, native american, hispanic or middle eastern issue in America, but let's open our eyes. Brutal senseless disregard for life is an across the board issue.
Bob H
3:13 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Yous trin ta out doz da bro in Gorgia
Richard J. Thomas
5:40 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Just cut his throat and drop him in the gutter. He's not worth the electricity to run old sparky.
norma j. carter
6:29 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
ms.lady
to all you people that have commented on this horrible incident lets wise up, these very traget incidents that has taken place around the globe is just the fore fillment of the holy scriptures. it should not matter what race these terriible incidents take place in they all should be viewed the same because no parents of any race should face death by their own children for any reason. it's a very sad thing to hear when a child murder their parent/parents the same with parents killing their child or children.from reading about the incident this man had enough time to think on what he had done, he had left and came back and realize the woman that gave birth to his ass was still alive but he instant on killing her anyway. like marymrevis, he need to get a justify punishment and that is death. that goes for anyone that can brutally murder anyone like that his/her life should be forfeit. this is same case as the Hernadaz case of CA.
TynTyn
9:57 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
People, please ignore the racial comments. They are just started for their inflammatory value and to make a solitary, lonely, miserable soul get SOME, ANY, attention. Remember the scripture: " Resist you-know-who and he will flee."
Candis
11:05 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Just a couple months ago a group of white kids murdered a couple black kids and dismembered their bodies and had thee audacity to continue the party as if nothing happened over their dead bodies! Was that a black thing too? People are people no matter what color we all bleed red. Get a grip on the race card Tom
Mz Sexy:-)
11:22 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
I would like to say thanks to those 4 the prayers condolences R family is greatful. 2nd JOE.. THAT'S UR NAME U R OFF BASE GET HELP.. And to all the other comment.. My Auntie nor any other human being life should be cut short or takin by the hand of another human being .. My CJ was a very very good & respectful person & was Rised by the best parents.. DRUGS was the not case... schizophrenic SCHIZOPHRENIC LOOK IT UP & READ ON IT... & u can get all the psychiatric help & all the psychiatric medication & all the love & support from family but GOD is the only TRUE person that can help FIGHT ALL THOSE demonic spirits invoices THATS IN THE MIND of a schizophrenic.. Once the mind of a schizophrenic snap anyone in the path will be the victim of such brutal acts... We r all living in the world of pure evil & any room that the devil feel in can fit in he's takin it..GOD can help u fight the worst of the worst & u don't have to be the holiest as long as u believe & have faith in GOD.. We may never no what lead up to triggered this unbearable act...
Mz Sexy:-)
11:30 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
My bad for sum of my misspelling... &. JIM NOT JOE. LIKE I SAID B4 GET HELP
Tracey Reitterer
2:51 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013
A rabid animal like this deserves to be euthanized. Unfortunately, Illinois recently outlawed capital punishment, so the family of this poor woman, as well as other decent law-abiding taxpayers will have to foot the bill to keep this POS alive in prison for the rest of his life, IF he gets convicted at all. How's that for liberal minded "justice"?!
FAYE JONES
6:33 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
instead of leaving all of these racist comments, how about we all just pray for the bereaved family!
ssssskip
7:47 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Women never take responcibilty, "IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT".
ssssskip
7:51 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
But he don't listen to me, when I told him I wanted to put a cement landing beside the garage. And it never got done, was because what you wanted to do "YOU NEVER DID".
ajg
2:12 am on Monday, March 25, 2013
These racist comments are SICK! GOD DAMN a family is in pain you mo fo's are using someones else's pain for your own sick twisted bs cause your biggots! Karma!
cincin
7:22 am on Monday, March 25, 2013
Why doesn't everyone just stop visiting this site and reading this material? Leave the ones who use it as a way to spew hatred and bigotry to themselves.