Two white supremacists were charged over the gruesome murders of a mother-of-five and a man late last year.
Prosecutors alleged that 40-year-old Brandon Gerner and Joshua Jones, 34, killed 57-year-old Robert Riley during a drug deal gone bad in November.
The allegations were confirmed by a co-defendant, Kody Olsen, who died during a shootout with police a month after the crime.
Olsen told detectives before his death that Gerner ordered him to shoot Riley and went into a trailer where he stabbed the second victim, Ashley Williams, believing that she witnessed Riley’s death.
Williams was then shot by Olsen before the suspects removed her and Riley’s bodies to the Rock Creek Natural Area and ditched them under trash and debris.
On Nov. 16, a man walking his dog called 911 to report a grisly discovery.
“I’m like looking at it and I’m like, ‘Huh, is that a mannequin?’ And I looked again, and I was like, ‘Huh, no.’ And so I started hollering, you know, thinking, ‘Are they alive?’ Ya know, ‘What’s going on?’” the witness recalled.
Gerner is also accused of shooting a horse dead as a sacrifice following Olsen’s memorial service.
According to reports, he founded a white supremacist prison gang while serving a 22-year sentence.
