{"id":244061,"date":"2026-04-24T00:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244061\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:42:39","slug":"st-pete-mother-charged-with-murder-of-4-year-old-son-found-unfit-to-stand-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244061\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete mother charged with murder of 4-year-old son found unfit to stand trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 The woman who was charged with killing her 4-year-old son in January has been found incompetent to stand trial.<\/p>\n

Diana Cullom is facing a first-degree murder charge<\/a> after police said a teen found her 4-year-old brother deceased inside a home.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to a call at a home on Tanglewood Drive Northeast on Jan. 27, where they discovered a dead 4-year-old child, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD).<\/p>\n

Police said the teen made the discovery after arriving home from school. SPPD identified the four-year-old as Finley Joseph Cullom. <\/p>\n

The boy’s 43-year-old mother, Diana Cullom, was taken into custody on Jan. 28 on a first-degree murder charge, per the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against Cullom, but on Tuesday, the court found her incompetent to stand trial.<\/p>\n

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Homeowner loses decade-long legal battle against St. Pete over unrecorded water pipelines<\/p>\n

An Odessa man lost his legal battle against the city of St. Petersburg today after a jury ruled that two massive water mains buried under his property can remain.<\/p>\n

Homeowner loses decade-long legal battle against St. Petersburg over unrecorded water pipelines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 The woman who was charged with killing her 4-year-old son in January has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28757,205,66088,34137,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-244061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-4-year-old","9":"tag-abc-action-news","10":"tag-diana-cullom","11":"tag-first-degree-murder","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa-bay-28","20":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","21":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244061","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=244061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}