Deborah Sue Rudibaugh was arrested Friday in connection with the death of her son Jacob Millison
A 68-year-old woman was the second person to be arrested in connection to the murder of a young man in control of a prosperous ranch in Colorado.
Deborah Sue Rudibaugh, from Parlin, was taken into custody on Friday, a day after her daughter Stephanie Jackson was arrested.
The 33-year-old was accused of killing her brother, Jacob Millison, in an effort to gain control of the family’s 700-acre ranch in Gunnison County. Police now believe their mother, Rudibaugh, was also involved in the man’s death.
The family ranch is thought to be worth millions of dollars, and includes Indian Head Rock.
‘It’s definitely ranch-related,’ Gunnison County Under Sheriff Mark Mykol told the Denver Post. ‘It’s a beautiful setting. Indian Head Rock is on the property.’
Now, Jackson and Millison’s mother has been arrested as well in connection to her son’s death, though investigators would not give details as to what her connection is.
Cops say Rudibaugh and her daughter, Millison’s sister, Stephanie Jackson, killed the man to gain control of their family’s 700-acre ranch which is worth millions (the ranch pictured above)
Jackson, 33, was arrested on Wednesday in Gunnison County, Colorado. Police haven’t yet given details as to how Millison died or exactly how Jackson and Rudibaugh were tied to the crime
Gunnison County Under Sheriff Mark Mykol simply told the GJ Sentinel: ‘she is a suspect,’ and declined to comment any further.
Millison was first reported missing by his friends in 2015, and three months later by his relatives.
When Millison’s friends lost contact with him, they asked his family about his whereabouts and they said he was on a trip with an MMA fighter group.
But the friends reached out to the group and learned that wasn’t the case.
It wasn’t until about three months later that the family filed a missing person’s report of their own.
In July, police got a warrant to search Millison’s property and found his remains buried on the land, according to CBS Denver. They won’t say how he died but believe his older sister and mother were involved.
Millison was first reported missing by his friends in 2015, and three months later by his relatives. Cops got a warrant to search Millison’s property over the summer and found his remains. His sister is pictured above
Friend Randy Martinez says he always knew the family was involved.
‘Literally days before he went missing he told us if anything ever happened to him, it was his family,’ Martinez told CBS Denver.
‘We kind of figured it all along – he is the type of person who would never just take off and leave and that’s what they (his family) said he did,’ Martinez said.
Rudibaugh is being held without bond on a count of first-degree murder, a felony count of tampering with a deceased human body and misdemeanor counts of abusing a corpse, concealing a death and false reporting.
Jackson was taken into custody Wednesday and is being held in lieu of a $500,000 bond. She faces seven counts of accessory to first-degree murder and one count of abuse of a corpse.