ANDERSON, Ind. — A Madison Circuit Court 3 jury found a 52-year-old Anderson woman guilty Tuesday of theft, fraud, forgery, and three counts of obstruction of justice, all felonies, in a case involving property documents signed the day her mother died.
According to a probable-cause affidavit filed in 2023, Kenyatta Carter reported a suspected forgery to Anderson police in September 2022. Carter told police that she and her brother, Maurice May, were listed on the deed to their mother’s Anderson home and had completed property paperwork in August 2020.
Carter alleged that Malaika Bell, her younger sister, forged their mother Willie Mae May’s name to put the deed in Bell’s name. The affidavit says the documents were signed and dated June 21, 2022, the day May died. Carter also told police that Bell said their mother had instructed her to sign the deed…