BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (TCN) — A man reportedly admitted to police that he slashed his wife’s throat and beat her with a hammer.
According to the Northampton County District Attorney’s Office, on the morning of March 11, Bethlehem Township Police responded to a home on 3rd Street to perform a welfare check after a family member expressed concern. Responding officers announced their presence and attempted to gain access. They made contact with James Frank, who told police his wife, Deborah Glaser, was dead in the bathroom.
Authorities located Glaser with multiple stab wounds. They also found “various cutting instruments” in the bathroom, including knives, razor blades, and box cutters, as well as a hammer and a mallet.
According to police, Frank confessed that he cut his wife’s throat in the trachea area with a steak knife “while she was still alive.” He then allegedly used a knife and a hammer to “puncture Glaser’s chest and heart” approximately 10 times to make sure Glaser was deceased.
Frank appeared in court on March 11 for his arraignment and faces a charge of criminal homicide.