George Bone (LVMPD) and the home where he allegedly killed and lived with Beverly Ma (KLAS screenshot)
A 31-year-old man in Nevada was arrested this week for allegedly killing his female roommate inside their shared home and spending more than two months living with her body stuffed in an upstairs bedroom closet which he barricaded shut out of fear she would rise from the makeshift grave.
George Anthony Bone was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with one count of open murder in the slaying of Beverly Ma, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a press release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers at about 2:27 p.m. on July 26 responded to a 911 call about a deceased adult female at a residence located in the 5300 block of Railroad River Avenue. Upon arriving at the scene, first responders located the victim, saying that she appeared to have been “deceased for an extended period of time.”
Due to what investigators referred to as “the suspicious nature of the death,” the department’s Homicide Section was dispatched to the scene.
“Through the course of the investigation detectives determined this was a homicide and identified the suspect as the victim’s roommate, 31-year-old George Anthony Bone,” the release states. “He was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for open murder.”
The victim was later identified as Ma by the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
More details about the scene were revealed in a copy of the probable cause affidavit obtained by Las Vegas CBS affiliate KLAS-TV.
According to the report, one of Ma’s family members placed the original call to 911 and told the emergency dispatcher that when they went to the home shared by Bone and Ma looking for Ma, Bone told them she was “in the closet and had been there for two months.” The family members were reportedly prompted to go to the home after not speaking to Ma for several weeks and receiving an unusually large air conditioning bill.
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