Mother and son indicted on Grovetown murder and robbery charges

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Story Published: Apr 23, 2009 at 9:38 AM EDT

Story Updated: Apr 23, 2009 at 9:38 AM EDT

APPLING, Ga. (AP)- A mother and her 20-year-old son have been
indicted on charges they robbed and killed a next door neighbor.

A Columbia County grand jury indicted 41-year-old Rebecca Sears
and her son, Christopher Bowers, in the March 25 death of 41-year-old Laverne "Kay'' Parsons. Police say Sears and Bowers beat Parsons to death with a bat and claw hammer before stealing a gold necklace and watch from her Grovetown home.

Authorities say later the pair tried to confuse police by staging Sears' shooting outside her workplace the next day. Police say Bowers gave his mother a superficial wound in her leg.

The pair are being held in the Columbia County jail without bond.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Thursday, Apr 23 at 1:43 PM huffmansj wrote ...

"udontnome" is the biggest idiot on the planet. What does this person think would justify such a brutal act. Please keep morons off the web.

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Thursday, Apr 23 at 1:35 PM Anonymous wrote ...

I bet a nickle it was all due to them thinking she had money in her home. To kill someone over a gold necklace and a watch how sorry. What does that buy a rock or something. Test them both for drugs. Drugs is killing our youth as well as the older generation. Wake up Augusta!!! Wage a war on drugs. If we get control over the drugs in our communities there will be less and less crime. May the victims family find peace.

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Thursday, Apr 23 at 12:50 PM udontnome wrote ...

Know the whole story before passing judgement. What did the lady do to cause these two to kill her?

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Thursday, Apr 23 at 11:44 AM msmith wrote ...

bottom of the barrel. these people are the true definition of HUMAN WASTE. they need to quit stealing our oxygen.

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Thursday, Apr 23 at 10:19 AM donna wrote ...

eye for eye !!!!

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