Two men in Central Florida were arrested on charges of first-degree murder in the slaying of a 92-year-old woman on Wednesday.

Police said the murder stemmed from stealing $70 for marijuana, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Krystopher Laws, 21 and Joshua McClellan, 19, are accused of brutally slaying the elderly woman by beating and stabbing her, and then placing her body in a wooded area near a mobile home park.

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Officers arrived to the woman’s home on Wednesday after friends said they did not hear from her since Monday. When officers went inside the house they found blood splattered in the front part of the home with “bloody drag marks around the home,” according to the Orlando Sentinel. The woman’s car was also missing, but her glasses and one house slipper was left behind on the front porch.

Deputies located the victim’s car later that night, which had blood on the outside and a knife left inside on the center console. Nearby tire tracks led officers to a wooded area where the woman’s body was found underneath a shallow layer of dirt.

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On Friday McClellan’s mother took her son and Laws to the police department when she discovered they both stole the woman’s car from the parking garage near a library, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

But Laws and McClellan told officers two different stories.

Laws told investigators that he and McClellan went to the woman’s house to steal money to buy drugs, and McClellan knew the woman because he did lawn service for her.

He then said they dragged her body to the garage and put her in the trunk of her car, stealing $70. They drove her to where her body was found and buried her.

Laws said they already spent the $70 they stole to pay for marijuana.



But McClellan told officials that they only stole the victim’s car. He said they were scouting empty cars for cash and took the victim’s car to “go for a drive.” While they were in the car McClellan gave his pocket knife to Laws and told officers the reason there was blood on the car was because “Laws cut himself with the knife,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Both men remain in the county jail on no bond.

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