A 59-year-old man, suspected of murdering 3 people and setting a house on fire in South Carolina, was captured this weekend in Oklahoma, the police told local media.
According to The Guardian, Harry Mapps, a murder suspect, was captured on Saturday, December 28 in a motel in Roland, Oklahoma, after an intense manhunt that lasted over a month.
Kirk Taylor, Colorado county sheriff, told the media that Mapp's capture was achieved thanks to information developed by the Marshals Service in Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas.
On November, the Marshals Service ordered the arrest of Mapps on charges of first-degree murder. According to ABC, when he was arrested, Mapps was unarmed and didn't fight the arrest; however, a picture released by Colorado County police shows the 59-year-old with a broken lip.
Harry Carl Mapps is accused of murdering 55-year-old Kim Tuttle, her husband, Reggie Tuttle, 51, and their daughter, Dawn Roderick, 33. The family's bodies were found at the Tuttle household, in the town of Rye, a home which was sent on fire on November 27.
The police's investigation revealed that the fire was started in an attempt to hide the bodies.
Although for the moment authorities have not released an official version of the motives for the crime, it's assumed that Mapps, who worked for Reggie Tuttle's truck company, had murdered the Tuttles to steal money and checks he collected the day the house was sent on fire.
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