Eighty-five-year-old Idaho woman saves herself and son from burglar in ‘heroic act’

Christine Jenneiahn shot and mortally wounded a man who broke into her home at night and handcuffed her to a chair

At 85 years old, Christine Jenneiahn might have seemed particularly vulnerable to the man who broke into her Idaho home, pistol-whipped her and handcuffed her to a chair.

But investigators say Jenneiahn saved herself as well as her son - whom authorities described as disabled - from the intruder by grabbing a revolver she had hidden under her pillow, shooting and mortally wounding the violent burglar.