Mausoleum rape case sent to grand jury

Beverly Majors/Staff

Published Wednesday January 16, 2013 at 6:44 pm

Updated Wednesday January 16, 2013 at 6:46 pm

The rape case against a Claxton mobile home park resident was waived to a grand jury on Jan. 9 in General Sessions Court.

PHOTO/ Anderson County jail Charles R. Bean

The rape case against a Claxton mobile home park resident was waived to a grand jury on Jan. 9 in General Sessions Court.

Charles R. Bean is being held in the Anderson County jail under a $1 million bond, charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, trespassing and vandalism stemming from a July incident at the Woodhaven Memorial Park involving a 23-year-old man.

Bean lives on Coconut Lane, which is near the memorial park.

The 55-year-old Bean is accused of luring the younger man to the mausoleum, locking him inside and forcing him to perform oral sex. Reports said the victim was also forced to drink alcohol, punched and slapped and threatened with death.

The victim called 911 and told the dispatcher “I'm going to die inside the mausoleum,” reports said. When Sheriff’s Department deputies got to the mausoleum they couldn’t get inside and had to get a key from Woodhaven Funeral Home. Reports said deputies heard a voice from inside telling another person to keep quiet.

The victim told deputies he had been lured there by a text message and photo from a woman named Nicole.

He said Bean locked the door when he went inside and told him he would “kill him and put him inside the mausoleum where no one would ever find him.”

While inside the mausoleum, Bean also reportedly urinated on walls.

Bean has a long history of alcohol-related arrests in Anderson County and was arrested for assault in September 2011 when he reportedly spit in a deputy’s face and told the deputy he had hepatitis. In that case, the deputy had to be tested for an infectious disease and Bean was found guilty to an amended charge of offensive conduct (simple assault) and sentenced to unsupervised probation.

Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.

