Woman took her mother’s life and convinced her daughter to hide the body

A woman was found responsible for murdering her mother and then ask his own daughter for help to dismember the lifeless body with a chainsaw and incinerate it on a grill he had in the garden of the house.

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The murderer, identified as Candace Craig, 45, was found guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, tampering with evidence, and disposing of a body in an unauthorized place. The events occurred in Maryland, United States.

He convinced his daughter to dismember and burn her mother’s body

The victim, Margaret Craig, 71, had complained to her daughter for using her credit cards and told her that she was going to contact the Police. The murderer, faced with her mother’s warnings, strangled her to death. Then, Candace Craig convinced her daughter Salia Hardy, 19, to dispose of the body. According to the American digital media WUSA9, The young woman testified against her mother and admitted her participation in the terrible crime. Salia maintained that she found her grandmother’s body inside a plastic freezer and then helped her mother dismember it to burn it on the grill.

The authorities found the victim’s body after a control visit, as the neighbors reported that they had not seen the woman again, according to what was indicated The New york Post. The murderer’s daughter allowed the police to enter, who went to the basement and noticed the smell of decomposition. Investigators found the tools that the murderer used to dismember her mother.

Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said the killing “shook the entire region.” In addition, he mentioned that Margaret “was a generous, caring, loving, compassionate and understanding woman, who was suffocated and murdered by her daughter.” Braveboy added that the victim was “dismembered, burned and grilled. “It was an insult to this 71-year-old woman who was a worker.”

The murderer has already been declared responsible for the crime and now the US authorities are expected to indicate how many years Candace Craig will serve in prison for the vile murder of her mother.

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