One is allegedly googled “murder defense” after his child’s mother was found dead, covered by bleach

A man in St. Louis has been accused of murder, more than three years after his children were killed in a shooting.

According to the probable reason submitted in court and obtained by KSDKThe Fox 2 and First warning 434-year-old Karl Mayberry was arrested on Wednesday, May 7 and was charged with murder at first degree of shooting by his partner, 31-year-old Alvatyne Thomas.

The court document says Thomas was shot and killed on December 27, 2021. The police were called to a home in the 4000 block in Oregon Avenue for a welfare check and found Thomas deceased with a “plastic bag taped around her head.” She also had swelling on her forehead, one cut her ear and several defensive wounds. In addition, bleach had been poured over her body, the outlets reported.

The police said that Mayberry told them during the investigation that he was at work when Thomas was killed, but his colleagues told the investigators that he left for several hours and came back with different clothes and seemed “upset”.

Investigators also found online searches made on Mayberry’s phone near the time of Thomas’s death for “First Degree Defense” and “May He says, she says” used against a person for murder in Missouri “, the stores reported.

According to the court document, Mayberry also announced someone after Thomas’s death and stated that his child’s mother was “found dead in the kitchen with a plastic bag wrapped around her head” before the investigators shared information about the case in public. The 34-year-old was also alleged to a lawyer on penal defense asking about the cost of representation in a murder case.

Thomas’s family members told the police that she was in an abusive relationship with Mayberry, who is the father of her youngest child, reported the stores, with reference to the court document.

Thomas older sister Dewanna Coleman told First Alert 4 that she felt a sense of peace after the charges were submitted against Mayberry.

“I love her and I miss her. I would just push. I would never think Christmas would have been my last day to see her,” Coleman said of Thomas, who was a mother to five.

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“I already knew he had a part in it. No one else would do it for her,” Coleman added.

Cheneish Johnson, Thomas’ second sister, also told the outlet that while she felt “happy” for the first degree of the murder law, she did not feel “that justice will ever be served.”

“She’s gone, and we’ll never get her back. The kids will never see her again, but he may still eat, take a bath, use the bathroom,” Johnson said.

The court register shows that Mayberry is currently on test for previous conviction, including abuse and being a criminal in possession of a firearm. He is currently held without binding at St. Louis City Justice Center.

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