The Untold Truth About Joan Porco's Family

Sixteen years ago, joan porco's son, christopher, was convicted of using an ax to murder her husband, peter porco, and badly maim her. But through the years, she's stood by her son, insisting. Inside the couples bedroom, a bloodied ax sat upon the floor. There were no fingerprints on the weapon and no one was in the home when they arrived. Someone had killed peter porco and had very nearly killed his wife, now it was up to the officers to find out who.

Christopher porco, 22, is accused of attacking his parents with an ax as they slept in their home in 2004. He allegedly killed his father and put his mother into a coma in what appears to have been the drastic act of a desperate young man in deep financial difficulty. 15, 2004 night someone quietly entered her 36 brockley drive, delmar, home in the middle of the night. The attack on joan had been devastatingher skull fractured, her left eye destroyed. But, against all odds, she was alive. Even more astonishing was what she managed to do.