https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/08/25/two-catholic-nuns-discovered-dead-in-rural-mississippi-home-police-say/Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the slaying of two Catholic nuns whose deaths sent shock waves through their rural Mississippi community this week.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, has been charged with two counts of capital murder, according to a statement posted online by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. The decision to charge Sanders was made after an exhaustive interview Friday evening, the statement said.
“Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation,” Lt. Col. Jimmy Jordan, director of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, said in the statement. “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.”
Rodney Sanders, 46, has been accused of killing two Catholic nuns in rural Mississippi. (Mississippi Department of Public Safety)
