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| Clara Yarbrough Roden |
Murder charges against two Etowah County women — one of them
the victim's daughter — will go to an Etowah County grand jury after a
preliminary hearing Monday before District Judge Joe Nabors.
Despite motions from the attorneys appointed to represent
the two women, their bond will remain unchanged.
47 year old Clara Yarbrough Roden, and 49 year old Jacquelin Nipper West, were
charged April 6 with murder, five days after 82-year-old Charlie Yarbrough was
found dead in his Pine Ridge Apartment home. He apparently died of blunt force
trauma to the head.
The two women have been held on $250,000 cash bonds, and
Nabors ruled those bonds should remain in place because of the brutality of the
crime and the fact that evidence indicated there were efforts to clean up and
conceal it.
Yarbrough's daughter, Roden, initially called police,
claiming to have come to check on her father, only to find him in a pool of
blood in his bathroom.
As police examined the scene, they found spattered blood and
indications that someone had tried to clean up blood in the apartment.
Additional evidence, including bloodied clothes and shoes, were found in
garbage bags in dumpsters at the apartment. The same type garbage bags were
found in the victim's apartment.
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