Overview

• Deputies conducted a late-night welfare check in Ozark after the victim’s husband reported she was not answering calls.
• Officers questioned 39-year-old Derrick Alling, who said he did not think his mother was alive and directed them to a guest house where her body was found.
• Authorities say Carolyn “Alesia” Alling, 65, suffered multiple skull fractures from a gardening or scraping tool.
• Alling pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and armed criminal action and is being held in the Christian County Jail without bond.
• Court records state he had demanded access to his mother’s trust for weeks, and prosecutors described the alleged attack as “violent and gruesome.”