{"id":416377,"date":"2026-07-29T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416377\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:03:24","slug":"son-charged-with-killing-maine-woman-with-hammer-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416377\/","title":{"rendered":"Son charged with killing Maine woman with hammer in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 36-year-old man was charged with murder on Monday for allegedly bludgeoning his mother to death with a hammer last week in a California home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Safford James Wolfson is accused of killing 61-year-old Angela Caprioli, whom multiple media reports identify as being from Maine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caprioli was found dead in a Laguna Beach home on the morning of July 20. Wolfson, who was reportedly found covered in blood on the floor of the home, was quickly named a person of interest. Police arrested him on July 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/07\/27\/son-used-hammer-in-fatal-attack-of-mother-in-laguna-beach-prosecutors-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Orange County Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolfson\u2019s grandmother allegedly called police after coming to the home and finding broken furniture and blood everywhere, the District Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caprioli was found dead in a bedroom with severe injuries to her head and face. Wolfson had self-inflicted injuries on his neck, according to the Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man was charged with murder on Monday for allegedly bludgeoning his mother to death with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-416377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}