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Violet Yacobi was found dead in her Beverly Hills home on Oct. 10, 2017

On Feb. 12, 2018, Daniel Yacobi was arrested and later charged with murdering his mother

“He said he hated his mother and he hated his father,” a witness testified at Daniel's murder trial

It was unusual for Violet Yacobi to be out of touch with her family.

The 67-year-old—a recently widowed mother of two grown children and grandmother of one—was nearing the end of a year-long period of mourning for her husband Solomon, a physician who died in 2016, and was preparing to resume her active social life and making plans to visit family in Israel.

A day rarely passed without Violet, who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s after living in the Soviet Union and Israel, calling one of her kids—daughter Dina,

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