HUNTSVILLE (AP) — An Alabama man has been indicted on a murder charge in the strangling death of his mother earlier this year.

WAAY-TV reports that 58-year-old Donald Marlon Mann of Huntsville is charged in the January killing of 83-year-old Betty Scalf.

Mann has an attorney, but he hasn’t yet entered a plea in the case. A defense attorney didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Monday.

Police responding to a call about a death found Ford’s body at her home. Mann wasn’t home at the time, but police say he told investigators he strangled his mother. He was arrested and a grand jury returned the indictment after reviewing evidence.

Authorities think Scalf had been dead for several weeks.

Mann is jailed in Huntsville with bond set at $75,000.