Serial killer’s mother slain in bed; teen suspect hid in shower

(CNN) — A woman who was found stabbed to death in her bed in a Cleveland home was the mother of serial killer Michael Madison.

The woman was found dead and three children injured early Saturday after an attacker entered their home around 12:15 a.m. and stabbed them in their bedrooms, Cleveland police said.

The woman was identified as Diane Madison, 62. Her son’s former attorney confirmed she is the mother of Michael Madison, who has been on death row since 2016 for the killing of three women, CNN affiliate WEWS reported.

The injured children were two 10-year-olds and a 12-year-old, police said. Two of them ran to a neighbor’s home to call for help, and the third hid inside the house until police arrived.

Jaylen Latrell Plummer, 18, was arrested after being found in a shower in the home. He had wounds on his hands, police said.

WOIO reported that Michael Madison had barricaded himself inside his mother’s home — the house where Saturday’s stabbings took place — before his arrest in July 2013. The house is on the northeast edge of Cleveland, one block from the suburb of Euclid.

Madison, now 41, was convicted of the killings of Shirellda Terry, Shetisha Sheeley and Angela Deskins. The women’s bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags near an East Cleveland garage he was leasing.

In a dramatic moment during court proceedings, Shirellda Terry’s distraught father, Van Terry, leaped over a table in an apparent attempt to attack Madison. As a court officer held Terry off, Madison grinned and taunted him.

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