The Virginian-Pilot
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DATE: Tuesday, June 11, 1996                TAG: 9606110409
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: METRO BRIEFS 
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE                        LENGTH:   17 lines

SON FACES MURDER CHARGE

A 23-year-old Chesapeake man has been charged with killing his mother, whose body was found by police Monday morning on her 41st birthday.

Robert Bellmore Jr. was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mary Jane Love, both of the 2000 block of Speedy Ave., according to Elizabeth Jones, a police spokeswoman. Bellmore is being held in the city jail.

Police on Monday did not release a cause of death pending an autopsy, but said that a weapon had been recovered.

KEYWORDS: ARREST MURDER MATRICIDE by CNB