{"id":135084,"date":"2026-01-28T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:17:06","slug":"florida-mother-accused-of-murder-after-teen-sister-finds-4-year-old-brother-suffocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135084\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mother accused of murder after teen sister finds 4-year-old brother suffocated"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida mother has been accused of first-degree murder after her 4-year-old son was discovered dead by his teenage sister.<\/p>\n

The St. Petersburg Police Department said that they responded to a call reporting a person bleeding at 1760 Tanglewood Drive NE. <\/p>\n

Upon arrival around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, officers reported meeting with a 16-year-old girl who described a horrifying scene.<\/p>\n

The teenage girl reportedly told officers that she returned home from school to find her mother, 43-year-old Diana Elizabeth Cullom, cradling her 4-year-old brother, Finley, in a bed.<\/p>\n

See also: ‘Never heard of it\u2019: Man arrested under HALO Law speaks out after viral video<\/a><\/p>\n

The Police Department said that immediate medical attention was provided, and the mother was transported to Bayfront Hospital with multiple lacerations, which were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n

Authorities revealed that Diana Cullom had been accused of first-degree murder in connection with her son\u2019s death, which comes after the medical examiner confirmed that Finley did not suffer stab wounds but had been suffocated. <\/p>\n

Diana Cullom was found to have self-inflicted stab wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida mother has been accused of first-degree murder after her 4-year-old son…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-135084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}