Mother's boyfriend in custody for her death

Police arrested this man Saturday in connection with his girlfriend's death. Charges are pending. His name has not been released.

  KINGWOOD, TX (KTRK) -- A Kingwood mother was dead Saturday and her boyfriend was in custody, police said.

Around 10am, police got a call about a disturbance at an apartment in the 2100 block of Lake Hills Drive.

According to officials, the suspect called his parents and told them something had happened and he was feeling suicidal. They asked police to check on their son.

When they arrived, investigators found the victim's body and took the suspect into custody.

Police said the victim's eight-year-old son was home at the time but didn't see anything. He was released to his biological father.

Investigators believe the victim may have been strangled, but an autopsy will be performed to confirm her cause of death.

No names have been released.

Please stay with Eyewitness News and abc13.com for updates as new information becomes available.

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Twins accused in mother's murder appear in court

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Twin brothers accused in their mother's murder made their first court appearance Wednesday morning.

Edwin Larry Berndt and Edward Christian Berndt, both 48, are charged with murder in the death of their mother, Sybil Berndt. Prosecutors say Sybil Berndt fell back in January in the house she lived in with Edwin and Edward and laid on the floor for three days without being administered medical care or food. After neighbors called for a welfare check, Houston police officers found her body and took the brothers into custody. The issue of the brothers' mental state was not brought up in court this morning, but both the defense lawyer and prosecutor talked about mental evaluations when we interviewed them. "A lot of evaluation needs to be done in that regard for those two men," said defense attorney Robert Scardino. "Obviously, we're going to want them to do some type of mental evaluation," said prosecutor Samantha Knecht. The judge kept the brothers' bonds at $500,000. (Copyright ©2011 KTRK-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

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