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Carolyn Hood, Kenneth Hood, William Minton

A 79-year-old Montgomery woman who authorities once described as an "invalid" was indicted by a Baldwin County grand jury Tuesday with assisting her son in the brutal murder of her late husband nearly two years ago.

Carolyn Hood is being held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center on $100,000 bail after she was indicted on a charge of aiding and abetting a capital murder.

Her son, 57-year-old William Minton, faces capital murder and abuse of corpse charges and is scheduled to go before a jury in December.

He is accused of the brutal slaying of 87-year-old Kenneth Hood inside a Foley home on Nov. 6, 2014.

According to testimony last year by a Baldwin County Sheriff's investigator, Minton struck Hood in the head with the corrugated side of a dumbbell bar handle during an argument, then dragged his lifeless body into garage. Within the next day, Minton used a reciprocal saw he had recently purchased to carve up Hood's body before discarding body parts into creeks south of Magnolia Springs.

William Minton preliminary hearing 7 Gallery: William Minton preliminary hearing

The killing, according to District Attorney Hallie Dixon last year, occurred because of an argument over money that Kenneth Hood had been lending to the children and other family members of his wife.

Carolyn Hood, at the time, was described as protective of her adult children and Dixon had said she was not truthful with authorities when initially questioned about the murder.

But Hood has also been described as frail and someone who needed constant assistance, which was often provided by her husband.

William Minton had been living with his mom and Kenneth Hood since March 2013, after he was released from prison following a 20-year prison sentence for a child molestation and sodomy conviction in 1997.