Sheriff's deputies said Hartman told them that he agreed to a plan to shoot his father to death and assist in the suicide of his cancer-stricken mother.
Hartman was arrested and charged with murder and assisting suicide after deputies found his father, 53-year-old Brian Ellis Hartman dead in a container at his home last week.
Family members reported the elder Hartman missing after he failed to show up for his wife's funeral.
An autopsy was not performed on 52-year-old Cheri Hartman after she died because she had been suffering from cancer.
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