VAIL, Ariz. (KGUN) — UPDATE (8:55 a.m., July 27):
Pima County Sheriff's Department arrested 38-year-old Andre Tyrone Tillmon Saturday in connection with the murder of 65-year-old Cindy Kreider.
According to a news release from PCSD, Tillmon is Kreider's son, who also lived at the home. Evidence gathered during the investigation identified Tillmon as a suspect in her death.
An interim complaint said PCSD received a call last Friday, July 24, from Kreider's neighbor, saying Kreider was in the kitchen, face down.
Deputies arrived to find Kreider's body in full rigor mortis. They rolled her body over to find signs of trauma to her face, the complaint said, with swelling and bruising around the eyes and a laceration to her forehead.
Deputies learned Tillmon was living at the home. They canvassed the neighborhood, looking for surveillance footage.
Recovered footage from a neighbor showed a vehicle registered to a victim, leave the house at just after 7 p.m., the complaint said.
According to the complaint, the victim was alive about 1 hour earlier during a Facetime call with an ex-boyfriend.
After he was detained, Tillmon confessed, post-Miranda, to punching Kreider multiple times, the complaint said.
Tillmon left Kreider lying face-down in the kitchen, the complaint said. He did not attempt to help Kreider before he left, the complaint said.
Tillmon described the events "as though he were experiencing a delusion at the time of the incident and felt as if his life was in danger," the complaint said.
He said in the complaint that he did not believe that his mother was dead, because he did not believe his mother was real.
He did indicate that he knew his rights and that he knew the difference between right and wrong, the complaint said.
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A suspicious death investigation is underway in the Vail area after deputies found a woman dead inside a home Friday afternoon.
Pima County Sheriff's Department Vail District deputies responded to a residence in the 13600 block of Hampden Green Way shortly before 5 p.m. on July 24, 2026, at the request of the Rincon Valley Fire District. Deputies located a deceased woman inside the residence.
Investigators identified the woman as 65-year-old Cindy Kreider.
PCSD Homicide Unit detectives responded to the scene and observed trauma to Kreider and other concerning evidence. The Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner is now working to determine exactly how she died.
The investigation remains ongoing. Deputies are asking anyone with information about this case to call 9-1-1.
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