The Brief Safford James Wolfson, 36, has been charged with murder for allegedly bludgeoning his 61-year-old mother, Angela Caprioli, to death with a hammer. Police discovered Caprioli with stab wounds at a Laguna Beach home after Wolfson's grandmother found blood and called authorities. A Laguna Beach man faces up to 26 years to life in prison after being charged with murder in the deadly hammer attack on his visiting mother. The victim, 61-year-old Angela Caprioli, was visiting her son from Maine when the incident occurred. The backstory:On July 20 around 11 a.m., Laguna Beach Police officers responded to a home in the 1300 block of Dunning Drive.