Verity A. Beck, 45, of Jenkintown, who is accused of fatally shooting and dismembering her elderly parents in January 2023, has apparently reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, The Morning Call reported.

Though the specifics of the plea have not been released, the deal indicates that Beck has abandoned her previous intention to plead not guilty due to insanity.

Beck will appear in a Montgomery County courtroom on September 30 when her case is “scheduled for guilty plea,” according to an order issued on Thursday by a Montgomery County judge. Her double-homicide trial was expected to begin next month.

Beck is charged with two counts each of first- and third-degree murder and abuse of corpse and two counts of possessing instruments of crime, specifically a firearm and a chainsaw, in connection with the deaths of her parents.

Defense lawyers previously filed a notice of an insanity defense for Beck, claiming she “was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act she was doing, or that she did not know that what she was doing was wrong,” the Call said.

If Beck pleads guilty to first-degree murder she would face a mandatory life prison term. A conviction of third-degree murder carries a possible maximum sentence of 20 to 40 years in prison.

In December 2023, court documents suggested the motive for the murders was Beck’s “financial struggles” as she “was confronted by her elderly parents about stealing from them.”

Pretrial court documents alleged Beck had a recent bankruptcy filing for a total of $114,059 and had been “caught making unauthorized purchases on her father’s bank card.”

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