Features

Woman arrested in stabbing death of 13-year-old son

The Associated Press
Monday February 25, 2002

BURLINGAME — Police arrested a Minnesota woman on suspicion of stabbing her 13-year-old son to death at his father’s house Sunday. 

Donna Anderson, 49, of Shoreview, Minn., was being restrained by her bleeding ex-husband, Frank Burns, at 8:30 a.m. Sunday when police arrived at the home. 

Police said the teen-ager had been stabbed multiple times in the chest and upper torso. 

Police also suspect Anderson of stabbing Burns in the leg with a seven-inch kitchen knife as he tried to restrain her. Burns was treated and released from the hospital for his injury. 

Police said Burns heard a scream and went to see what was happening when he reportedly found Anderson stabbing the boy. 

The woman had brought her son from Minnesota to California so he could visit his father and grandparents, who live in the same house in the small city about 15 miles south of San Francisco. 

Burlingame Police Chief Gary Missel said they do not have a motive yet.