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A 15-year-old Florida boy has been charged with murdering his mother, burying her body under a church fire pit and then trying to stage his home to look like there was a break in.
Gregory Logan Ramos, 15, confessed to strangling his architect mom Gail Cleavenger, 46, at their home in DeBary after they argued about him getting a 'D' grade at school, police say.
The boy then teamed up with his close friends from University High School, Dylan Ceglarek and Brian Porras, both 17, to make it look as though Cleavenger was killed during a break-in.
Ramos and his mother exchanged words about his D grade at around 11pm Thursday night then he woke her up at around 12.30am in the early hours of Friday morning and cut off her air supply.
'He went into her room and woke her up and began strangling her and strangled her till he killed her,' Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said, added that the motive was 'rage'.
In between the argument the mother had called father Danny Cleavenger - who was away on a business trip in Seattle - to tell him about the grade.
He found out about her death when he returned home Friday night.
During his confession he said he used a wheelbarrow to move her body into the family van and then he drove to River City Church 1.5 miles away where he buried her in a fire pit.
At first he drove to Daytona's Holly Hill area to dump her corpse but headed back to find a shovel before he went to his alternative plan.
Meanwhile his friends kicked the door in, took items from the house and left the van's engine running in an effort to make it appear as though there had been a break-in.
'Then got home and made in his words a "Grammy-winning phone' call to 911 to talk about this horrible incident that did not really occur,' Chitwood said at a news conference.
Chitwood said Ramos told them what really happened after he initially tried to say his mother dropped him off to school Friday morning.
However the details did not add up after Cleavenger's architect firm said she didn't show up to work that morning.
Law enforcement were suspicious of the boy – who returned home from school early on the day of the crime and made the call at 3.52pm - almost immediately.
He reported his mother missing and noted the van left running in the driveway.
Nevertheless law enforcement put out a notice for anyone who knew of her whereabouts.https://www.wftv.com/news/local/15-y...-say/865720801
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