Mother Testifies In Bucks Co. Beheading Trial: 'I Did Not See This Coming'

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The mother of the Lower Bucks County man accused of beheading his father in their home took the stand during the start of her son's trial on Monday, authorities said.

“I did not see this coming,” Denise Mohn stated during testimony Monday, the Bucks County Courier Times reported.

Justin Mohn, 32, of Middletown Township, is charged with killing his father in January 2024 and posting a disturbing YouTube video holding his father’s decapitated head and calling for violent attacks against members of the federal government.

His trial began in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas on Monday, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

Mohn's mother said she had no warning for what she found when she returned home from work in January 2024.

Hours before she said she found her husband’s headless body on the bathroom floor, he and 33-year-old son, Justin, had lunch in their Levittown home.

There was no sign of any tensions between father and son. They had a normal relationship, aside from the nuisances that can arise when adult children live at home, the newspaper reported the mother said from the witness stand.

Mohn, of the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive, was arrested hours after the Jan. 30, 2024, killing of his father and charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and possession of an instrument of crime.

Authorities later filed three counts of terrorism charges against him.

Police had received information about a 14-minute video posted to YouTube, which showed Mohn picking up the decapitated head of his father, identifying him by name and as his father. In the video, Mohn ordered all militia and patriots across the United States to kill all federal employees.

Hours after the murder, investigators tracked Mohn’s cellphone to the National Guard Training Center in Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County. There, he climbed a barbed wire fence and entered a secure military installation.

The investigation revealed that Mohn went to Fort Indiantown Gap to mobilize the National Guard to raise arms against the federal government.