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ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – A Lake St. Louis, Missouri, man is in custody days after his mother was found stabbed to death inside their home.

Officers with the Lake St. Louis Police Department were asked to conduct a welfare check at the residence, located on Salisbury Court, on the morning of Saturday, April 5. They found the body of 79-year-old woman inside the home around 11 a.m.

Police said the woman had suffered multiple stab wounds and lacerations. A large butcher knife was located near the victim. The knife appeared to be part of a set of kitchen knives from a butcher block. Two knives from the set were missing.

Lake St. Louis and St. Charles County police contacted the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis to assist in the investigation.

Investigators found bloody footprints leading to the basement area, where the victim’s son, identified as Adam A. Christoph, slept. Blood was found in the basement bathroom and shower, and on the toilet, bathroom door, and the vanity. Several pieces of clothing and tennis shoes with suspected blood stains were found in Christoph’s bedroom.

The last known contact with the victim was on March 17 via email, police said.

Police said two receipts found in the home show Christoph made a withdrawal from a joint bank account he shared with his mother on March 19.

Surveillance video from a neighboring home shows Christoph drive off in a vehicle he shared with his mother around 2 p.m. on March 19. The vehicle was tracked leaving Missouri and later spotted with license plater readers in Moab, Utah, on March 25.

Police said Christoph was located in a hotel in Moab, where he’d attempted to take his own life.

Investigators have not determined exactly when the victim was killed.

The St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Christoph with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Christoph is currently in custody in Utah and is scheduled to have an extradition hearing on Monday. Once’s he’s transferred back to St. Charles County, he’ll be held on a $500,000 cash-only bond. Online court records do not say when he’ll appear before a local judge.