A 78-year-old Hazel Dell girl’s grandson and his good friend strangled her to dying along with her purse strap and used her financial institution card to make purchases and money withdrawals the day of her dying, in accordance with courtroom information.
Jordan M. Sullivan, 31, and Alyssa Williams, 30, appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court docket on suspicion of first-degree homicide and second-degree homicide, respectively. A decide set Sullivan’s bail at $4 million and Williams’ bail at $3 million. They’re scheduled to be arraigned April 14.
Prosecutors mentioned neither had any legal historical past.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies responded at 9:41 p.m. Oct. 8 to the 9900 block of Northwest twenty sixth Avenue. A girl known as 911 to report she discovered her longtime neighbor, Patricia Jimerfield, strangled along with her purse round her neck, in accordance with a possible trigger affidavit.
Responders discovered Jimerfield lifeless, in accordance with the sheriff’s workplace. There have been no indicators of pressured entry or housebreaking on the dwelling.
The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Workplace dominated Jimerfield’s dying a murder and decided she died from strangulation by a ligature, courtroom information state.
Deputies spoke with Jimerfield’s grandson, Sullivan, about 2 a.m. Oct. 9. He instructed them Jimerfield had known as him the night earlier than, and he and his good friend, Williams, went to her home. He mentioned they stayed for a couple of minutes, courtroom information state.
Additionally they spoke with Williams, who by no means talked about being at Jimerfield’s home earlier within the day. She mentioned she didn’t know of any plans for Sullivan to go to Jimerfield that day. She mentioned she final noticed Jimerfield a few week earlier than her dying, in accordance with the affidavit.
Jimerfield’s dwelling safety log confirmed her entrance door opened at 12:18 a.m. Oct. 8. The door opened once more three minutes later. The log additionally confirmed the entrance door opened about 6:45 p.m., across the time Sullivan mentioned he and Williams visited, and once more about an hour later. After that, there have been no different log entries till 9:39 p.m., when Jimerfield’s neighbor entered the house and located Jimerfield lifeless inside, courtroom information state.
Jimerfield’s household offered deputies with the girl’s checking account data, which investigators mentioned confirmed fraudulent withdrawals and purchases Oct. 8 at an ATM in Vancouver and grocery shops in Oregon, the affidavit states.
Surveillance video from the Oregon shops captured a person who matched Sullivan’s look utilizing Jimerfield’s financial institution card. Deputies mentioned Williams might be seen with him, in accordance with courtroom information.
Throughout a November interview with deputies, Sullivan and Williams mentioned they went to Jimerfield’s home after midnight Oct. 8. Additionally they confirmed they went to the grocery shops the place Jimerfield’s financial institution card was used about 1 a.m. Oct. 8. Additionally they mentioned they went to Jimerfield’s home later within the day, round 6:45 p.m., in accordance with the affidavit.
Sullivan’s cellphone knowledge matched these instances and areas, in accordance with courtroom information.
Investigators swabbed Jimerfield’s purse strap for DNA. The swab later returned a match for DNA belonging to Sullivan and Williams, the affidavit states.
An worker of an Oregon-based actual property consulting firm instructed deputies Oct. 11 he had talked to Sullivan on Oct. 10 about Jimerfield’s home. The worker mentioned he was suspicious of Sullivan, who mentioned he owned the home by means of a transfer-on-death deed after his grandmother died days prior, in accordance with courtroom information.
Investigators discovered document of the deed, accomplished in 2021, that listed Sullivan because the lone beneficiary of the home upon Jimerfield’s dying, the affidavit states.
