Ruby Ross filed a new deed to her property on Tuesday, May 15, removing two grandchildren from her property, according to an affidavit filed in court. The property at 11001 Blue Jay Road had been split into three tracts, with tracts 1 and 2 in Andrea Wilson's and her brother, Greg Wilson's names.
Ross, 81, was found dead in her bed on Wednesday, May 16. On Monday, May 21, her granddaughter, Andrea Lea Wilson, 26, was arrested in connection with capital murder and tampering with physical evidence. Wilson, 26, is accused of hitting her grandmother in the head at least four times with a hammer, according to court documents.
Detectives with the Benton County Sheriff's Office found a bloody hammer with white hair on it in an outhouse behind Ross' house, according to court documents. The hammer was in a black plastic trash bag that also contained rubber gloves with blood on them, a large butcher-type knife and bank statements with Andrea Wilson's name on them, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
Detectives seized items from Wilson after her arrest Monday, including her purse, which appeared to have blood on it, according to the affidavit. Blood was found on the exterior door leading to Wilson's apartment at 7804 SW Blue Jay in Bentonville, Apt. 22, according to court documents. Detectives also found possible blood in her vehicle and on five-gallon buckets in her car, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, the property at 11001 Blue Jay Road had been split into three tracts, with tracts 1 and 2 in Andrea Wilson's and her brother, Greg Wilson's names. Ross had filed a new deed removing the pair from the property, according to the affidavit.
Capital One also has a $11,569 judgment against Andrea Wilson, according to court documents.
Benton County Prosecutor Nathan Smith, citing the severity of the charges and the likelihood of Wilson's conviction, requested during a hearing Wednesday that she be held without bond in jail.
Jay Saxton, Benton County's chief public defender, represented Wilson at the bond hearing and requested a $100,000 bond be set. "I don't think she has a criminal history," Saxton said.
Smith told Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green that Wilson has traveled out of the country and if a bond is set, he wants her to surrender her passport. Wilson said she went to Brazil several years ago and lived with her father in Tennessee years ago.
Green ruled Wednesday probable cause exists to hold Wilson on the murder and tampering charges and set her bond at $750,000.
Green said Wilson must surrender her passport if she is able to post the bond.
Wilson's arraignment is set for 8 a.m. June 18.
General News on 05/30/2018