Man killed roommate, and lived with physique in closet for months

A Las Vegas intercourse offender killed his roommate and lived together with her decomposing physique inside a barricaded closet for 2 months out of worry she would come again from the useless, police stated.

George Anthony Bone, 31, was arrested Wednesday and charged with homicide after the girl’s household discovered her corpse contained in the shared residence, based on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The sufferer was recognized as Beverly Ma, Bone’s longtime buddy from highschool who moved in with Bone final summer time.

The accused killer allegedly advised cops he knew that Ma had been useless for “some time” and that she had dedicated suicide, based on courtroom paperwork obtained by 8 News Now.

Investigators had been known as to the grisly scene after Ma’s household had visited the house earlier within the day to hash out the reason for an unusually excessive air-con invoice.

Bone allegedly advised the female relative that Ma was “useless and gone” and had been within the closet for 2 months earlier than providing to point out her the physique.

“She observed a cooler towards the bed room closet door and the underside of the door had a towel, which coated the hole,” the paperwork state.

“George advised her that she will open it and see.”

Although the reason for Ma’s dying remains to be underneath investigation, police decided she was a sufferer of a murder and suspect she was strangled, the paperwork present.

Investigators additionally consider she was killed on Might 4 — the identical day she made a frantic 911 name wherein a person and a lady may be heard screaming at each other with the decision ending with a lady’s voice saying “Why.” 

When police responded that day and knocked on the door, nobody answered, police stated.

“When requested why he didn’t name for assist, Bone’s response was ‘I used to be afraid of going again to jail… for being discovered with a useless physique,” based on courtroom information.

Bone as a substitute continued residing in the home with Ma’s decomposing physique and allegedly took benefit of his useless roommate’s funds.

He’s accused of ordering greater than 170 gadgets that had been charged to Ma’s Bone Amazon account and utilizing her cellphone to textual content somebody that she couldn’t attend a July 4 social gathering as a result of she “needed to be sober, not journey and never be round folks,” police stated.

He additionally set the air-con to 60 levels as a result of he thought it could restrict the variety of flies that had been in the home, the Review-Journal reported.

“That was me being concurrently superstitious and um, simply distraught,” Bone stated of the assertion. “Simply watching too many horror films and ghost tales rising up.”

Bone is a level-three registered intercourse offender in Nevada after accepting a no-contest plea in 2013 to tried lewdness with a toddler underneath 14. He was sentenced to 2 to eight years in state jail, courtroom information present.

He was initially arrested earlier than for allegedly sexually assaulting a lady two years earlier when she was 11.