Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, police charged a Maryland man after finding his mother’s body in the backseat of her own Toyota RAV4. Officers say the woman had been dead for more than 30 hours before they discovered her in the SUV outside an apartment complex in Penn Township.

The case launched when Kevin Ahn’s estranged sister called police after seeing him outside Stiegel Manor Apartments. She told officers he acted strangely, talking in numbers and writing notes.

When he stepped away from the RAV4, she walked up and saw a grim note on the dashboard

It read: “Mom is in car. I’m sorry. Please give her a funeral. My brain is fried.”

The note also provided other details that might explain a motive, although the messaging is obscure and unconfirmed. Ahn suggested that his mother lied to him about “fake money.”

She tried to speak with Ahn, but he got back in the RAV4 and drove off. He returned about 30 minutes later. She and her husband confronted him. At that point, they noticed what looked like a human leg under trash and clothing in the backseat. Ahn ran from the scene.

Police arrested him a short time later in Manheim Borough. EMS confirmed the body belonged to Hyun Ahn, 61, of Owings Mills, Maryland. WGAL shared that officers reported signs of decomposition, bruises on her neck, hemorrhaging in her eyes, and discoloration on her face.

Ahn recently appeared in person for a preliminary hearing. The judge ordered him held without bail. Ahn also faces a separate felony charge in Maryland.

Investigators reviewed surveillance video from a notary’s office on Harrisburg Pike. The footage showed Kevin and Hyun Ahn together just two days before police found her body in her RAV4.