Overview

• Police say the assault unfolded around 7:25 a.m. Monday in the couple’s seventh-floor Pelham Parkway apartment where a large pool of blood marked the scene
• Prosecutors lodged charges of murder, manslaughter, two counts of strangulation and criminal weapon possession against Jeffrey Kolin
• Law enforcement sources report Kolin placed a 911 call to confess to bludgeoning his 77-year-old wife with a kitchen pot and smothering her with a pillow
• The couple’s troubled relationship dated back to 2005, with at least two NYPD domestic-violence responses this year, including one on June 25
• Kolin was hospitalized on suicide watch Tuesday as detectives collect forensic evidence and prepare for his arraignment