TIMONIUM, MD - Authorities with the Baltimore County police said that investigators have arrested the ex-husband of a woman killed in Timonium.
On Wednesday, September 24, police arrested 65-year-old Karl Danny Geiger on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the September 15 killing of 69-year-old Patricia Watson-Geiger, WBALTV reported. The two were reportedly housemates long after their divorce in 2019.
Watson-Geiger was found having suffered trauma to her upper body inside her house at the corner of Oak Croft Drive and Valley Court Road. The exterior light was on at the house on Wednesday afternoon, but no one was home.
On the evening of September 15, a man identifying himself as Danny Geiger told 11 News that he left for work around 7:30 a.m., got home around 8:30 p.m., and found his ex-wife dead in her bedroom. He said that he called 911. "It looks like somebody broke into my house and my wife's not moving," Geiger told a 911 dispatcher that night, according to the probable cause statement for his arrest, Law & Crime reported.
"[Geiger] described his house to look ransacked, and described his wife (ex-wife) to be unresponsive," the statement said. Later that night, 11 News watched as he wrangled a blood-stained mattress out of the front door, down the front lawn, and into a pickup truck that drove away.
When police arrived, they found Watson-Geiger with "blankets and sheets over her" and she was wearing a "sleeping mask over her eyes," police said. Numerous dresser drawers were said to have been open in her room, and a flat screen TV had been placed on the floor. Her jewelry box was also open with the drawers pulled out on top of her dresser, but it was still filled with both gold and silver jewelry.
"The victim's purse was located on the kitchen counter with the contents of the purse dumped out," the statement alleges. "Numerous credit/debit cards and coins were observed on the counter."
Court charging documents state that he told investigators the same thing he told 11 News. However, his alleged story did not stand up to surveillance video and his own cellphone records, which painted a different story.
Court documents said that Watson-Geiger was shot in the head and accused the suspect of staging a burglary. The suspect slipped up when he told someone the next day that "the victim had been shot in the head," according to the court documents. Police said in the documents that "at no point in the investigation did anyone tell the defendant where the victim was shot."
"Numerous friends and neighbors were interviewed during the initial stages of the investigation," the probable cause statement said. "One witness advised that they came home from work sometime between 8:00 am and 8:30 a.m., and were walking their dog in the driveway when they heard one or two gunshots."
Police said Karl Geiger kept up the story the day after the killing and a couple of days ago during police interviews. As of Wednesday, he remained held at the Baltimore County Detention Center. He is being held without bond.
On Wednesday, September 24, police arrested 65-year-old Karl Danny Geiger on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the September 15 killing of 69-year-old Patricia Watson-Geiger, WBALTV reported. The two were reportedly housemates long after their divorce in 2019.
Watson-Geiger was found having suffered trauma to her upper body inside her house at the corner of Oak Croft Drive and Valley Court Road. The exterior light was on at the house on Wednesday afternoon, but no one was home.
On the evening of September 15, a man identifying himself as Danny Geiger told 11 News that he left for work around 7:30 a.m., got home around 8:30 p.m., and found his ex-wife dead in her bedroom. He said that he called 911. "It looks like somebody broke into my house and my wife's not moving," Geiger told a 911 dispatcher that night, according to the probable cause statement for his arrest, Law & Crime reported.
"[Geiger] described his house to look ransacked, and described his wife (ex-wife) to be unresponsive," the statement said. Later that night, 11 News watched as he wrangled a blood-stained mattress out of the front door, down the front lawn, and into a pickup truck that drove away.
When police arrived, they found Watson-Geiger with "blankets and sheets over her" and she was wearing a "sleeping mask over her eyes," police said. Numerous dresser drawers were said to have been open in her room, and a flat screen TV had been placed on the floor. Her jewelry box was also open with the drawers pulled out on top of her dresser, but it was still filled with both gold and silver jewelry.
"The victim's purse was located on the kitchen counter with the contents of the purse dumped out," the statement alleges. "Numerous credit/debit cards and coins were observed on the counter."
Court charging documents state that he told investigators the same thing he told 11 News. However, his alleged story did not stand up to surveillance video and his own cellphone records, which painted a different story.
Court documents said that Watson-Geiger was shot in the head and accused the suspect of staging a burglary. The suspect slipped up when he told someone the next day that "the victim had been shot in the head," according to the court documents. Police said in the documents that "at no point in the investigation did anyone tell the defendant where the victim was shot."
"Numerous friends and neighbors were interviewed during the initial stages of the investigation," the probable cause statement said. "One witness advised that they came home from work sometime between 8:00 am and 8:30 a.m., and were walking their dog in the driveway when they heard one or two gunshots."
Police said Karl Geiger kept up the story the day after the killing and a couple of days ago during police interviews. As of Wednesday, he remained held at the Baltimore County Detention Center. He is being held without bond.
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