Saturday, March 27, 2010

Galveston, TX: 2 indicted in separate slayings of mother, girlfriend

By HARVEY RICE
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
March 26, 2010, 7:44PM

GALVESTON — A Galveston County grand jury has indicted two men on murder charges in two separate cases, a Santa Fe man in the slaying of his mother and a Texas City man in the slaying of his girlfriend.
Willard Clay Mobley, 56, of Texas City was arrested at his home Friday after being charged with the Jan. 13, 2008, slaying of his girlfriend, Carla Sue Blankenship, 55.
Blankenship's son found her body in her trailer in the 7600 block of Second Street in Hitchcock. She had been stabbed in the neck.
Thomas Lipton Mahoney II, 36, of Santa Fe was arrested at his home after being charged in the Dec. 22, 2005, death of his mother, Mildred Weed Campbell, 55. Sheriff's deputies found the victim dead from a gunshot outside her residence in the 13100 block of Bethel Court near Santa Fe.
Sheriff's spokesman Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said the indictments were signed on Thursday.
Both were being held in the Galveston County Jail on $100,000 bail each.

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