Arkansas woman arrested for murdering mother a week after jail release
12/27/2019 3:12 pm PST
via KFSM:
MANSFIELD, Ark. (KFSM) -- A Mansfield woman has been charged with murder after her mother, Melinda Rogers, 57, was found dead in her home Dec. 23.
Arkansas State Police say a Texas sheriff's department called local police to check on Rogers after the victim's daughter, Jordana Rogers, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon Dec. 23 in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Investigators in Texas interviewed Rogers and she confessed to killing her mother.
Jordana Rogers has been arrested several times in Sebastian County for charges ranging from resisting arrest to domestic battery. She was just released from the Sebastian County Detention Center on Dec. 16.
According to the Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office, Arkansas State Police filed murder charges against Jordana Rogers on Thursday, Dec. 26.
