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Two Garden City cops rushed to the Olsen home on College Place – and found James bleeding from his wrists and his mother already dead.
An unemployed Long Island man ashamed over stealing his 88-year-old mother’s money strangled her and then slit his wrists in a botched suicide attempt, authorities said Friday.James Olsen, 56, choked Ruth Olsen with a scarf-like article of clothing inside their Garden City home early Thursday, authorities said.”We believe that he was conflicted over the amount of money he was spending and didn’t want mom to know,” Nassau County Police Detective Lt. John Azzata said.Details of the murder began to emerge after James Olsen called 9-1-1 about 8 p.m. Thursday. Olsen told a dispatcher he needed “police assistance,” Azzata said.Two Garden City cops rushed to the Olsen home on College Place – and found James bleeding from his wrists and his mother already dead.Investigators determined the murder happened several hours earlier.”He was not confronted,” Azzata said, adding that Olsen was “using his mother’s money in his own way.”James Olsen, charged with second-degree murder, is being treated for his injuries at Nassau University Medical Center.Olsen has prior arrests for driving drunk in 1998 and 2005, authorities said.
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