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By Phil Helsel
After police discovered the body of a woman in a home on Tuesday, an Arizona woman and her daughter confessed to killing their family’s 77-year-old matriarch in 2017 and cashing her checks monthly since her death, police said.
Tara Aven, 46, and her daughter, Briar Aven, 24, were arrested Tuesday and face multiple charges, police in Prescott said in a statement.
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Police discovered the body of a 77-year-old woman after a concerned resident reported that he had not seen Sandra Aven, 77, in some time.
Tara and Briar Aven live next door to Sandra Aven, and when police asked them about Sandra’s whereabouts, they discovered inconsistencies in the women’s accounts, police said. Briar Aven is said to have initially told officers that her grandmother was out of town.
After interviewing the women, police entered a home and found a body they believe is that of Sandra Aven, Prescott police said.
Police said the woman has yet to be identified and they did not say how she died.
“Subsequent interviews with Briar Aven and Tara Aven resulted in confessions to the murder of Sandra Aven in late 2017,” police said in the statement, adding that in the time after their relative’s death they began cashing monthly payments intended for Sandra Aven.
Online court records did not show the cases against either woman Tuesday night, and it was not clear if either woman had attorneys. Yavapai County Jail records show the women were booked Tuesday afternoon, but the records do not list charges.
Attempts to call numbers that could be associated with either woman were not immediately successful Tuesday night.
Police said that the investigation was continuing.