Filmmaker Held, Corpse Found in His Home

Tombstone, Arizona - It’s a scene straight out of Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” A Tombstone filmmaker was arrested after authorities found a decomposed body of a woman believed to be his mother inside his home. Tombstone Marshal Billy Cloud said his office received a call to do a welfare check at the home of 68-year-old Jill Fattig. A deputy was sent to Fattig’s home, but when no one answered, he went to question her son, Timothy Fattig, a filmmaker for Desert Scream Productions, a horror-film production company. Fattig, 34, told the deputy his mother was at a hospital in Tucson. When authorities found this was not the case, Fattig admitted his mother had died a year ago. After a search warrant was obtained, deputies discovered the skeletal remains of Jill Fattig inside the home.  More…