Carol K. Weidman, center, is facing a second-degree murder charge in connection with her mother's death. BRUCE ASATO I The Honolulu Advertiser

Weidman, whose feet were shackled, did not say anything during the brief court appearance before Honolulu District Judge Leslie Hayashi.

Weidman is accused of killing Lisa Weidman, 55, at their Pa'ihi Street home Wednesday night. Police said the mother's body was found late Wednesday night by the older woman's boyfriend. She died of manual strangulation and stab wounds to her neck and chest.

Weidman was arrested early Thursday morning and was charged with second-degree murder Friday night. She is being held on $50,000 bail.

According to a police affidavit filed in District Court, Weidman was taken for questioning to the Pearl City police station, where she began telling an officer about the killing.

The affidavit said when Weidman was told she was under arrest, she said: "My dad always told me that my mother tried to kill him and my two brothers before they got divorced; and that is always in the back of my mind. I had to kill her before she killed me. It was always on my mind."