{"id":135171,"date":"2026-01-28T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:31:10","slug":"mother-charged-with-murder-in-suffocation-death-of-4-year-old-son-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135171\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother charged with murder in suffocation death of 4-year-old son, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Gray News) \u2013 A mother in Florida was charged with first degree murder in the death of her 4-year-old son, officials with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StPetePD\/posts\/pfbid0ow7be6L5RZxhUfHjEh3vGtbHutSKLGXrr76e7cLLPWU6Wy1GQbQfMnVKVTeoreg4l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg Police Department said<\/a> Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the boy\u2019s 16-year-old sister found her mother holding her brother in bed when she got home from school around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere was blood at the scene and throughout the house,\u201d police said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Diana Elizabeth Cullom, 43, was taken to the hospital for treatment of multiple cuts and has since been released. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Diana Elizabeth Cullom is charged with first degree murder in the death of her son.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DRU2WZAGTVGI7DWGZNTIXXK4AU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Diana Elizabeth Cullom is charged with first degree murder in the death of her son.(St. Petersburg Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police initially thought the 4-year-old had been stabbed, but the medical examiner determined there were no stab wounds on the child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the medical examiner, the boy was suffocated. Police said Diana Cullom had self-inflicted stab wounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She was charged with murder in the death of her son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the 16-year-old found a note in the house, which they believe was written by the mother. What the note said has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Editor\u2019s note: An earlier version of this story said the teen had found her brother stabbed. Police have since updated details provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Media. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Gray News) \u2013 A mother in Florida was charged with first degree murder in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[66144,28,66146,66147,202,204,203,199,201,200,66145],"class_list":{"0":"post-135171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-boy-stabbed-to-death","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-mother-accused-of-stabbing-son-to-death","11":"tag-mother-injured-with-stab-wounds","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-teen-finds-brother-stabbed-to-death"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135171","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=135171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}