Lorrie Demko
Lorrie Demko
Lorrie Ann Demko was single mother of three from Palmyra, Pennsylvania.
Death
On Monday June 6, 2016 Lorrie Demko was murdered by her 17 year old son Jacob Taliaferro who after the murder sat down to watch TV and took a shower before he dialed 911 to turn himself in. [1]
Jacob Taliaferro stabbed his mother Lorrie Demko in the chest with a kitchen knife and strangled her with a rope until she died. [1]
Taliaferro then checked Demko 's neck and found no pulse. After the killing he watched TV for some time, took a shower and called 911 at 5 a.m on Monday June 6, 2016. [1]
When police arrived Taliaferro told them “She (Demko) had been dead for a while, and that he wanted to turn himself in.” [1]
The police officers dispatched to the home at 806 E. Cypress St. in Palmyra about 25 miles east of Harrisburg, found the woman lying covered in dried blood on the floor of a bedroom with a large laceration on her chest. [1]
Prosecutors charged Taliaferro as an adult with murder, and a judge at his arraignment Monday ordered him held without bail at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility.
Community Response
Chris Bailey-Wolfe one of Lorrie's neighbors said “Lorrie was an amazing woman who would have done anything for anybody.”
He also said that “My daughter used to hang out with her sometimes and they would do each other’s nails and stuff, and all the kids on the street would go swimming at her house during the summer.
She was like the Mother of the Year for this street.”