Ashley Jones allegedly confessed to poisoning her stepfather at her mother’s behest. Her mother, Marsha Allen, was found dead with “no signs of violence” the same day as the confession.
A 29-year-old Indiana woman is behind bars for allegedly killing her stepfather with antifreeze in a convoluted scheme devised with her mother and uncovered by law enforcement during a burglary investigation.
Ashley Nicole Jones was arrested Wednesday and is locked up in the Jackson County Jail without bail on charges of murder, attempted murder, burglary and conspiracy, according to public records reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The man’s death in December 2022 didn’t initially trigger a police investigation. According to his obituary, 52-year-old Harold “Peanut” Allen “passed away suddenly” in Freetown, Indiana.
But officials opened an investigation into his death Sept. 19 after his wife — Jones’ mother — Marsha Allen called police to report a burglary at her home.
“Officers investigated the burglary, and determined that two men, Steven White and Nathaniel Kane Napier, committed the burglary at the direction of and with the assistance of Marsha’s daughter Ashley Jones,” Jackson County Sheriff Rick Meyer wrote in a press release.
