MIAMI (AP) – A woman accused in the deaths of four women in Alabama and Florida was “a willing participant” in a killing spree that ended with the other suspect fatally shooting himself in a Georgia motel room as a SWAT team closed in, according to an arrest warrant.
Mary Rice, 37, faces multiple charges in Alabama and Florida in connection with the women’s deaths. She surrendered Tuesday in West Point, Georgia, after a standoff at the motel where she had been holed up with William “Billy” Boyette.
Law enforcement officials said the two were involved in a crime spree that began Jan. 31 with the deaths of Jacqueline Jeanette Moore, 39, and Alicia Greer, 30, at the Emerald Sands Inn in the city of Milton, in Florida’s Panhandle.
Authorities said they are also suspected in the death of Peggy Broz, 52, who was stalked and followed Feb. 3 from her job at Baptist Health Care in Pensacola, Florida, to her home across the state line in Lillian, Alabama.
Three days later, on Monday, authorities said, they believe Boyette and Rice shot Kayla Crocker, 28, in her home near Pensacola and took her car. Crocker died Tuesday afternoon, the same day the pair was tracked to the motel in Georgia.