At left, Brenda K. Brown is escorted from the Rhea County Courthouse in Daton, Tenn., on Thursday after entering a guilty plea to two counts of first-degree murder and being ordered to serve two life sentences in the August 2011 slayings of Bledsoe County sisters Elizabeth Brown and Billy Sue Blalock.The woman charged in the 2011 slayings of two elderly Bledsoe County, Tenn., sisters on Thursday pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was ordered to serve two life sentences without parole, authorities said.
The plea stems from the Aug. 16, 2011, slayings of Elizabeth Brown, 82, and her sister, Billy Sue Blaylock, 79, who were found shot to death on their property on Mills Dam Road.
The shooter, Brenda K. Brown, “will never become eligible for parole and will spend the rest of her life in prison,” 12th Judicial District Attorney Mike Taylor said Thursday.
Elizabeth Brown was Brenda Brown’s mother-in-law.
Brown, 48, agreed to a venue change so the hearing could take place in Dayton, Tenn., Taylor said. She was brought to Rhea County Circuit Court from the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville, where she was being held on a probation revocation from a 2010 conviction.