to the affidavit.

Tuesday morning, Mary Dempsey didn't show up to work. Her employer couldn't reach her by phone, so they notified Dempsey's daughter. The daughter went to the home on Stagecoach Lane and noticed her mom's car was missing.

She found the front door unlocked, according to the affidavit, and saw the home had been "ransacked." She then saw the blanket covering something in the living room. She "stepped closer to the blanket and saw it was covering a person and saw a pool of blood," the affidavit says.

The woman called 911. Authorities pronounced Mary Dempsey dead at the scene, and investigators began questioning neighbors in the area.

"A canvass was conducted and information was obtained that two males were seen leaving the victim's home on the night of 4-8-2019and the morning of 4-9-2019," Det. Lawrence Saiz wrote in the affidavit.

Detectives began to suspect Dempsey may have been involved in his mother's death and they visited his mobile home in the 7600 block of West Military Drive, where Saiz found a trash bag with bloody clothes inside, according to the affidavit.

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Later, when Dempsey and his girlfriend returned to their mobile home, police arrested both and began interviewing them. Dempsey's girlfriend told police he had confessed to killing his mother with Saucedo, and Dempsey himself allegedly confessed to the slaying, the affidavit says.

Investigators charged him with capital murder and obtained an arrest warrant for Saucedo on the same charge. Saucedo has since been taken into custody.

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