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MS man arrested in stabbing death of two nuns

Forty-six year old Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko has been charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the killing of two nuns in Durant Thursday.

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The MBI says Sanders was a person of interest early on in the investigation and with the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies, they were able to arrest Sanders.

Merrill was a nurse practitioner in MS for more than 30 years and had been at the Lexington Medical Clinic since 2010. He says police haven’t determined when the vehicle was abandoned.

He said the family is thankful that Sanders is off the streets, but his family still has to deal with the loss.

“They actually spent their entire lives serving the community here”.

Merrill said he would not support the death penalty if Sanders were to be convicted but that decision will ultimately be made by the people in Mississippi.

“Right now, I don’t see no forgiveness on my heart”, said Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and received care from Sister Merrill, adding whoever killed her should be executed.

What the police found in the nuns’ shared home was equal parts shocking and sickening. This undated photo provided by Sisters of Charity of Nazareth shows Sister Paula Merrill.

Rodney Earl Sanders is charged with two counts of capital murder.

They were well known by only their first names – Sister Paula and Sister Margaret.

‘There’s something wrong with the world’.

The sisters were loved by the doctors and residents in the area, and were the primary caregivers at the clinic, he said.

Held was a teacher at St. Joseph’s High School in Kenosha in the 1970s before heading south, said Michael O’Loughlin, spokesman for the School Sisters of St. Francis. “Folks in Holmes County don’t realize the impact it will have without them being here”, Sample said.

“We do more social work than medicine sometimes”, Merrill told The Journey. She and Sister Margaret Held were stabbed inside their rural MS home Thursday morning.

Authorities didn’t release a motive and it wasn’t clear if the nuns’ religious work had anything to do with the slayings. “The word “sister” has many meanings, and they fulfilled all of them”. She said her sister and Held would often go into the clinic on Sundays after Mass or on their days off.

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Sanders is “not quite homeless”, but is “nomadic”, said Strain.

A US man has been charged with the murder of two nuns who were found dead in their rural Mississippi home