An Arkansas man has been charged with capital murder after police found the remains of his mother in a freezer at their shared home following family members’ requests for a welfare check.
Raymond Martin Jr., 49, of Conway, Arkansas, allegedly used his 68-year-old mother Nancy Glover-Warren’s cell phone and social media accounts to keep up a rouse that she had spontaneously decided to retire to Hawaii all while her body was inside a large stand-up freezer in the garage, according to court documents. During the months she was missing, Martin. Jr. allegedly withdrew a “significant amount of money” from his mother’s bank accounts and tried to forge a roughly $6,000 check in her name, police said.
Martin Jr. has been jailed at the Faulkner County Detention Center after being arrested and charged in the death of Glover-Warren, whose body was discovered on Thursday at the home she shared with the suspect and an adult son who is disabled, Conway Police Department (CPD) said on Friday in a news release. Martin Jr. confessed to police following the discovery of his mother’s remains, according to court documents.
Police tape is seen on the ground at a crime scene in Monterey Park, California, in January 2023. The inset shows Arkansas resident Raymond Martin Jr. who is charged with capital murder, abuse of a corpse, forgery, fraudulent use of a credit or debit card and theft of property after his mom’s frozen remains were found at the house they shared.ROBYN BECK / AFP, CONWAY POLICE DEPARTMENT/GETTY, CONWAY POLICE DEPARTMENT
In addition to capital murder, Martin Jr. faces charges of abuse of a corpse, forgery, fraudulent use of a credit or debit card and theft of property, CPD said in the statement, which was shared on the department’s Facebook page. He confessed to strangling her mother after an argument in April, according to police
