Trial postponed for Felton woman accused of killing her grandson

Officials say that a trial was postponed for a Felton woman who is accused of killing her three year old grandson in 2016.

According to Delaware Department of Justice officials, the trial for Angela Bingham was postponed for April 2, 2018.

Bingham turned herself into police in September 2016 after allegedly admitting that she killed her grandson and that she wanted to kill herself.

Bingham's neighbor at the time said that she reportedly committed the act because she felt that if she could not raise her grandson, that she did not want anybody else to have him after she was allegedly facing eviction and the possibility of losing him.

Court documents alleged that Bingham said in a police interview that she wanted to kill her grandson and herself and that she turned on the gas in her house, but when that did not work, she chose to suffocate the child with a washcloth as he lay in bed, telling the child before she killed him that it was time to go.

Bingham reportedly told police that she then tried killing herself by drinking bleach, hanging her self and taking pills but she survived.

In the nine days between when she allegedly killed her grandson and when she turned herself in, the child's body reportedly laid decomposing on the bed.  A police report showed that when they went into the house, an odor was released.

Days before that Bingham's daughter reportedly smelled the same scent when she went to check in. Despite the odor, Bingham's daughter believed her mother's alibi because she never thought that murder was a possibility.