Son charged in Wisconsin parents deaths out of hospital

Published 2:07 pm Tuesday, December 24, 2013

WASHBURN, Wis.  — A 44-year-old man accused of killing his elderly parents in northwestern Wisconsin has been moved from a hospital to jail.

The Bayfield County sheriff’s office said Jim Crain Jr. of Iron River was discharged Friday from a hospital in Duluth and taken to the Bayfield County Jail.

Crain is accused of killing his father and mother, 79-year-old Jim Crain and 76-year-old Eunice Crain, in an attack in the couple’s Iron River apartment on Dec. 7.

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Authorities said Jim Crain Jr. apparently cut himself during the attack. He had been hospitalized in an induced coma.