Yoel Richardson (37), who is accused of strangling his mother Sarah Richardson with a pillow in the settlement of Ma'ale Levona in Samaria, is the suspect in the murder of a patient in the closed ward of the Kfar Shaul Psychiatric Institution in Jerusalem. This was cleared for publication at the request of ynet. The autopsy report determined that the patient was strangled to death, and police stated that Richardson "confessed to the allegations against him." His detention was extended by eight days.