\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Northern New York man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his father.New York State Police said Hans Knickerbocker, 40, of Hermon, was arrested in the death of his father, Philip Knickerbocker, 63, of Hermon last week.Philip Knickerbocker was found dead on his couch on Feb. 25 at a home in Russell, in St. Lawrence County. An autopsy later confirmed that he died of asphyxia due to strangulation. His death was ruled a homicide. Police said Hans Knickerbocker and his father had gotten into an argument that turned physical. Investigators said they believe Hans Knickerbocker hit his father over the head before strangling him to death.Knickerbocker was arrested and appeared in court to answer the murder charge. He was then ordered to be held at the St. Lawrence County Jail without bail.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tRUSSELL, N.Y. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A Northern New York man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his father.<\/p>\n
New York State Police said Hans Knickerbocker, 40, of Hermon, was arrested in the death of his father, Philip Knickerbocker, 63, of Hermon last week.<\/p>\n
Philip Knickerbocker was found dead on his couch on Feb. 25 at a home in Russell, in St. Lawrence County. An autopsy later confirmed that he died of asphyxia due to strangulation. His death was ruled a homicide. <\/p>\n
Police said Hans Knickerbocker and his father had gotten into an argument that turned physical. Investigators said they believe Hans Knickerbocker hit his father over the head before strangling him to death.<\/p>\n
Knickerbocker was arrested and appeared in court to answer the murder charge. He was then ordered to be held at the St. Lawrence County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northern New York man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his father.New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40050,30221,62898,1840,62896,53347,62894,62474,26542,3450,1027,62895,259,9,11,26548,10,49,51,50,747,3905,62897,104,62471,2311,12029],"class_list":{"0":"post-150243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-argument","9":"tag-cause","10":"tag-couch","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-father","13":"tag-feb","14":"tag-hans","15":"tag-hans-knickerbocker","16":"tag-hermon","17":"tag-home","18":"tag-homicide","19":"tag-knickerbocker","20":"tag-murder","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-headlines","23":"tag-new-york-man","24":"tag-new-york-news","25":"tag-new-york-state","26":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","27":"tag-new-york-state-news","28":"tag-new-york-state-police","29":"tag-nysp","30":"tag-philip-knickerbocker","31":"tag-police","32":"tag-russell","33":"tag-st-lawrence-county","34":"tag-strangulation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}