The two women accused of murdering an elderly Rockcastle County woman appeared before a judge Monday to enter their pleas in the case.
Kimberly Slusher and Tabitha Howard pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, robbery and burglary in a Rockcastle County courtroom. The two are charged in the death of 86-year-old Mary Alice Hinton. Hinton died from blunt force trauma.
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Neighbors say that Hinton was a kind, Christian woman and that her trusting nature may have been her undoing. Hinton’s relatives who flew in from Texas for her funeral also attended the arraignment.
“She had made the mistake several times of taking for granted that everybody was as good of a person as she was. She trusted in everybody and people took advantage of her sometimes,” the victim’s nephew, Danny Hinton told LEX 18 in an interview.
The hearing was delayed two hours after the defense attorney was trapped in I-75’s fatal crash.
Hinton’s funeral is also Monday.
Slusher and Howard will be back in court two weeks from today. Their bond remains at $750K.
