Reginald MacLaren (Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office)
A jury in Colorado on Friday convicted an 83-year-old man in the murder and dismemberment of his wife and disabled daughter, prosecutors say.
Reginald MacLaren was found guilty of two counts each of first-degree murder and tampering with a deceased body along with false reporting, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a press release . MacLaren murdered his wife Bethany MacLaren, 70, and daughter Ruth Jennifer MacLaren, 35, with an ax and then chopped them up with a saw before stuffing their bodies in trash cans he had bought over a week earlier at Home Depot.
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Prosecutors say Reginald MacLaren called the Englewood Police Department around 6 p.m. March 25, 2023, to say he believed his wife and daughter were murdered. When cops arrived they noticed two large trash cans in the living room. The severed body of his wife was in one bin while the other held his daughter, according to prosecutors. Cops then found a large ax in a closet and the saw next to the trash cans.