Authorities were called to 70-year-old Susan Howe's home on Friday night after family members requested a welfare checkAt the same time, a separate call went out from a neighbor regarding a fire at her homeWhen police arrived, they found Howe's 34-year-old son, Adam, outside the home standing over the blazeInvestigators quickly ascertained that the fire was burning the body of Adam's motherA source told DailyMail.com that Adam had been suffering from a heroin addiction and was living with his mother at the time of her death
View more: Heroin addict, 34, is arrested for murdering his mother, 70, and setting her remains on fire outside her $900,000 in affluent Cape Cod, Massachusetts - after she threatened to kick him out for failing to get clean