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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police say a 20-year-old man helped his mother and another woman murder his grandmother when she evicted them from her home in late January.

Drake Bickett was booked into jail late Friday night on an open count of murder and tampering with evidence in the death of his grandmother, 65-year-old Marilyn Gandert.

His mother Alissa Bickett, 43, and Annie Rael, 28, are already behind bars and charged with her murder.

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Police say the Bicketts and Rael rented a home from Gandert until she evicted them and, on Jan. 26, the three beat and stabbed Gandert to death inside the home during a dispute. A few days later a passerby came across Gandert’s charred body in the mesa outside Rio Rancho.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court, detectives only recently learned of Drake Bickett’s involvement during a June 4 interview with 24-year-old Veronica Patterson, a woman who had spent a lot of time with the Bicketts around the time of Gandert’s murder.

After Gandert evicted the three, Patterson told police she dropped Drake Bickett off to help his mother and Rael move out of the house on the morning of Jan. 26.

Police say when Patterson returned later, the three told her they had killed Gandert during a dispute and threatened Patterson “multiple times” with a gun and knife.

Patterson told police they showed her Gandert’s body, which was “covered in blood, hands and ankles bound and a plastic material wrapped around her head” in Rael’s bedroom.

According to the complaint, Rael and the Bicketts forced Patterson to help put Gandert’s body in the back of Rael’s truck and drive far into the mesa west of Rio Rancho to dispose of it.

Once in a desolate area, police say Alissa Bickett put Gandert’s body on a mattress, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire.

The next day a passerby called police after finding Gandert’s burned body.

Patterson told detectives Rael told her how the murder happened and that Drake Bickett lured his grandmother into the house before “arguing with her about the eviction.”

Once inside, police say Rael and Alissa Bickett tried to beat Gandert to death but “got concerned” because Gandert “just wouldn’t die.”

Patterson told police that’s when Drake Bickett stepped in and stabbed his grandmother to death.

During their investigation, police found blood spatter and cleaned blood in Rael’s room and pick up truck. Investigators also found Gandert’s belongings inside the truck.