Police complaint: Lawyer’s son fatally beat him with bat

BARNESVILLE (AP) – A criminal complaint filed by state police reveals an attorney found dead in the home of his estranged wife, the treasurer of a Pennsylvania county, was fatally beaten by his son with a bat.
State police say in the complaint filed Wednesday that 37-year-old Michael Marchalk had repeatedly threatened 60-year-old Gary Marchalk in recent months. The suspect had lived with his father a few days before the fatal Father’s Day beating, and was supposed to enter a drug treatment program Monday.
Instead, the suspect allegedly beat and robbed his father, took a vehicle and fled the Ryan Township home the victim shared with his wife, Linda, the Schuylkill county treasurer.
Police say another son, Michael, found his father’s body Monday morning and called police.