Yahtzee Game Provoked Brothers Jason And Andrew Cobb To Kill Mother: Cops

Police have arrested three brothers in Minnesota for allegedly slaying their mother on Christmas because she wanted to play Yahtzee and they didn't.

The brothers are also accused of hiding their mother's remains, which were discovered buried in the family's backyard last week.

Jacob Cobb, 17, allegedly strangled mom Tamara Lee Mason on the living room floor when she suggested that her sons play the board game in the rural town of Alberta last Christmas, the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis reported.

Then he or his brother Andrew, 18, placed a plastic bag over her head and tightened a belt around her neck, TV station KARE said.

Their half-brother Dylan C. Clemens, 25, drove Mason's remains to South Dakota and back to Minnesota, hiding her body for months in a garbage can in a shed until the frozen ground softened enough to bury her in the backyard, police claimed.

"It is very strange," Stevens County Sheriff Randy Willis said Tuesday. "She wanted to play Yahtzee and they didn't. That seemed to be, in their minds, what expedited her sudden demise."

Jacob Cobb was held in juvenile court for second-degree murder while Andrew and Clemens were charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact, the Weekly Vice said.

The Cobbs were arrested on Friday. Police charged Clemens for his role on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

Clemens told police that Mason was missing on Dec. 27 and allegedly claimed that she left the family on Christmas because no one wanted to play Yahtzee with her.

Several times authorities questioned Clemens about Mason's disappearance, but he stuck to the story that she was missing. But on July 6, he caved and revealed the grisly details of her death, the Star-Tribune said.

Comments

[mystshy]

03:57 PM on 07/18/2011

IS THIS A CUT OUT FROM,,,,FARGO...???

[deven]

01:21 PM on 07/17/2011

Someone died - its not funny and if all you have to do is complain about the moderator - write to the source and get off the comments section for this posting. Grow-up all of you sound like a bunch of spoiled children.

[darter22]

11:54 AM on 07/17/2011

That does not sound like the whole story. It's hard to believe there weren't already some issues here.

[thereisonlyoneparty]

04:35 AM on 07/17/2011

Maybe if they played a bit more Clue they could have gotten away with this.

Apologies for the use of "gotten".

[justkilljimtoo]

10:05 PM on 07/16/2011

It is so sad that this mother raised her children not to respect Life. Not even hers. It is so sad so sad.

[JeanRR]

03:22 PM on 07/17/2011

Either you know a lot more about this than I do or you are engaging in some nasty 'blame the victim' game.

[dennis1943]

09:49 PM on 07/16/2011

Must be an inside joke.........................

[Wonder Woman2]

05:11 PM on 07/16/2011

Whew I am glad that my sons like cribbage and yahtzee!

[mudshark12]

04:50 PM on 07/16/2011

NEVER ask Andrew & Jacob Cobb or their half-brother Dylan C. Clemens to play Yahtzee! Even the very mention of that name causes them to go crazy.

[prddem]

03:03 PM on 07/16/2011

A baby is missing for 31 days and goes unreported - mother walks; sons kill mother for wanting to interact via a board game. Are we nuts or what?

[acacia72]

01:56 PM on 07/16/2011

Y A H T Z E E !!!!!!!!!

[jagrmeister721]

12:23 PM on 07/16/2011

This is just sad.  How could someone do that to their own mother.

[Beastw8Limbs]

12:22 PM on 07/16/2011

and some people are anti-abortion.

[European1919]

06:40 AM on 07/18/2011

Bet she was as well.

[MMMMarilyn]

02:16 AM on 07/16/2011

Coulda been worse guys.
She might have wanted to play UNO!

[MMMMarilyn]

02:15 AM on 07/16/2011

Gawd, I know the feeling,
I HATE YAHTZEE!

[nikau nikau]

11:12 PM on 07/15/2011

Eh, she probably abused them for years and they snapped. Battered child syndrome?

Of course, they aren't female, so they will probably get life.

[Sunnyhorse]

12:48 PM on 07/16/2011

WTF is the matter with you?