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| Kosciusko man arrested in nuns' murders |
| 2016-08-27 |
| JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Forty-six year old Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko has been charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the killing of two nuns in Durant Thursday. MBI agents were able to develop enough information to charge Sanders after an interview Friday evening. "Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation," said MBI Director Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan. "With the cooperation of the Durant and Kosciusko Police Departments, Holmes County Sheriff’s Department and the Attorney General Office this heinous crime has been resolved." Sanders is being held in an undisclosed detention center awaiting his initial court appearance. Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill were nuns in the Catholic Church and nurse practitioners at the Lexington Medical Clinic. Their bodies were found in a home they shared in Durant, on Castalian Springs Road. The nuns' missing car was located late Thursday night behind a grocery store on Mill Street, about a mile away from where they lived. The car was towed to a crime lab for analysis. Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed. |
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