Charges Expected in Father-Son Stabbings

A Mission Viejo woman with a history of alcohol trouble is expected to be charged today with stabbing her boyfriend and killing his teenage son during a bloody attack Friday.

Tamara Kay Bohler, 44, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and is being held without bail at the county’s Central Women’s Jail in Santa Ana.

Armed with two butcher knives, Bohler allegedly stabbed Jean Marc Weber and his son, Alex, on Friday as they slept in their Mission Viejo condominium.

Bohler was arrested after a security guard found her sitting on a San Juan Capistrano street corner, bloodied and dazed.

Weber, a 45-year-old Los Angeles chef, is recovering from knife wounds to his face, neck and chest.

Alex, who would have been an eighth-grader this fall at Los Alisos Intermediate School, died at the scene from multiple stab wounds.

Neighbors said Bohler and Weber had an on-again, off-again relationship that seemed to have been on an upswing recently.

Weber, one neighbor said, picked Bohler up at the condo on Wednesday.

Bohler’s neighbor, David Pless, 48, said he and his wife befriended Bohler’s son, Danny, whom they relied on to watch their dog.

Last August, Pless said, they noticed Danny was no longer around, and he said Bohler told them he had moved in with his father in Arizona.

He described Bohler as quiet and reliable, leaving home at 7:05 a.m. every weekday to go to work.

News of the arrest, he said, left him stunned.

“We’re still trying to figure out how we feel,” he said.

“It’s like a death happened in the family, and we don’t know what to think.”

Court documents and other records show that Bohler had a series of alcohol-related run-ins with the law over the last few years.

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, Bohler has been arrested three times for drunk driving since 1998, and her driver’s license was suspended as recently as May 26.

Court records show that Bohler attended a series of Alcoholics Anonymous classes and was ordered to attend an alcohol treatment program in Covina as part of a conditional five-year sentence imposed in 2001 following a drunken-driving arrest.

Bohler, who authorities said is an accountant, lived about six miles from the Webers in a condominium she bought last fall in Mission Viejo.

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Times staff writers Christine Hanley and H.G. Reza contributed to this report.