Makayla Meave-Byers vanished and turned up dead five days later. Court records state that Frank Byers’ boots “had a blood like substance on them” that matched his wife’s DNA.
“He just robbed my nieces and nephews of a fantastic mom and robbed me of a sister and everybody else of their friend,” Breanne Pennington's sister, Brooke Pertile, said of her brother-in-law, Aaron Pennington.
Betty Bowman died from an overdose of liquid colchicine, a gout medicine, according to court documents. Her husband Connor Bowman is charged with her murder.
“Weldon Alexander, father to Karen Alexander and Gordon Alexander, is the sole, viable suspect in their murder,” Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Connie Mitchell said.
Ashley Jones was arrested for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and burglary by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in Indiana.
Danny Serafini was arrested along with Samantha Scott in Nevada for the 2021 Northern California murder of 70-year-old Robert Gary Spohr and the attempted murder of 68-year-old Wendy Wood.
Prosecutors said that Shanti Cooper-Tronnes was beaten and strangled to death by her husband David Tronnes because she refused to appear on the show Zombie House Renovations.
“We intend to proceed expeditiously and will seek a full blown evidentiary hearing,” Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers, Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian, wrote in a statement.