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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e"><strong>Candy Jo Webb, 27, of New Mexico allegedly, gave her grandfather, AJ Harden, a lethal mix of drugs and &#8216;waited for his heart to stop&#8217; because she wanted his house, her boyfriend allegedly told cops</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e"><strong>After he vanished, Harden was allegedly still receiving retirement payments that were registered to the house that he deeded to his granddaughter </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e"><strong>When Harden&#8217;s remains were found by current residents in the house where the suspect once lived, Webb fled across six states to Florida, 1500 miles away </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e">The remains comprised of had duct-taped bones and dentures were found in the tool chest October 15</h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e"><strong>Webb was arrested Thursday in Jacksonville by U.S. Marshals in Jacksonville after she traveled 1,500 miles to evade arrest</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e"><strong>She was charged with first-degree murder <strong>and tampering with evidence</strong></strong> <strong>on October 28 in the killing of Harden</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#573c3e"><strong>She is awaiting extradition to New Mexico </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Candy-Jo-Webb-left-and-her-grandfather-AJ-Harden-right-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-359119"/><figcaption><strong>Candy Jo Webb, [right], is accused of giving her grandfather AJ Harden [left], a fatal dose of Xanax and Ambien and stuffing his dead body into a tool chest. She is as charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A ;New Mexico woman accused of administering a lethal cocktail on her ;83-year-old Navy veteran grandfather and then stuffing his body into a tool chest has been busted thousands of miles away in Florida<br> ;after <br>Candy Jo Webb, 27, who fled across at least six states, was arrested Thursday by U.S. Marshals in Jacksonville, just over a week after she was charged in the killing of her grandfather, AJ Harden, in Fort Sumner, NM.<br>Police say Webb gave Harden Ambien and Xanax, After he died, she stuffed him into a tool chest.<br>Webb then she drove her grandfather&#8217;s remains to 1976 Shenandoah Drive, on the outskirts of Fort Sumner, Fort Sumner is a rural town of just over 1,000 people in East Central New Mexico that&#8217;s the burial site of fabled Wild West outlaw, Billy the Kid. ; She she dumped Her grandfather AJ Harden&#8217;s remains there, police said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AJ-Hardens-property-in-New-Mexico-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-359116"/><figcaption> <strong>State police were called after current residents found Harden&#8217;s remains in a tool chest mostly bones, at this property in Fort Sumner</strong>, <strong>in rural NM</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Residents at the address found the tool box and called police October 15. State police found the remains, which were mostly bones, according an arrest affidavit viewed by the ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.abqjournal.com/1515423/fort-sumner-woman-charged-in-grandfathers-slaying.html">Albuquerque Journal.</a> ;<br>Duct tape still bound Harden&#8217;s wrists and covered his mouth. ;<br>Dentures, shoes, and clothing were found with the remains. A doctor&#8217;s note in a shirt pocket had Harden&#8217;s name on it.<br>Police learned that Webb had previously lived on the property with an ex-boyfriend, before she moved in with her grandfather on Lake Sumner. ;<br></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/On-Aj-Hardens-property-NM-state-police-found-in-a-tool-chest-bones-dentures-clothing-and-shoes-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-359121"/><figcaption><strong>The property in Sommer NM where Harden&#8217;s remains was found. </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Police found that duct tape still bound Harden&#8217;s wrists and covered his mouth, according to an arrest affidavit. <br>Cops interviewed Webb, who told them she had moved grandfather into a hospice care facility in Texas several months prior but couldn&#8217;t remember the name. ;<br>Later she told them the home was called &#8216;Shady Oaks,&#8217; and an aunt whose name she &#8216;does not know&#8217; had checked him out. ;<br>Police later found there was no such retirement home. ;<br>Retirement checks were still going out to Harden, they learned, and they were still registered to the home he had deeded to his granddaughter, according to the affidavit.<br>Police spoke to Webb&#8217;s boyfriend who said his ex had told him that her grandfather ordered her to kill him.<br>Webb gave Harden Ambien and Xanax and &#8216;waited for his heart to stop,&#8217; the boyfriend allegedly told police. ; ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AJ-Hardens-property-in-New-Mexico-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-359124"/><figcaption><strong>Police discovered that Harden&#8217;s granddaughter Webb had lived with an ex-boyfriend on the Shenandoah Drive property before moving in with her grandfather on Lake Sumne</strong>r</figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to the Journal, Webb&#8217;s boyfriend didn&#8217;t believe her story and called her a liar. ;<br>&#8216;You killed him because you wanted his house,&#8217; he claims he told Webb, <br>She then broke down crying, according to the affidavit. ;<br>Webb was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence October 28 by the De Baca Magistrate Court, and a warrant for her arrest was issued.<br>When they learned that Webb had fled the state to avoid apprehension, New Mexico State Police alerted the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Apprehension Service, according to ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/new-mexico-woman-accused-killing-grandfather-stuffing-body-into-tool-chest-caught-florida/AHYVWYPWR5DZPPUYQ5QSD4SLZQ/">KIRO-7</a>. ;<br>They caught up with her in Jacksonville, where Monday she was being held as a fugitive from justice in the ;John E. Goode Pre-trial Detention Facility.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AJ-Hardens-property-in-New-Mexico-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-359125"/><figcaption><strong>After fleeing the New Mexico, Webb was captured Thursday by U.S. Marshals six states away in Jacksonville, Fla</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Harden was a Navy veteran who was born and raised in Fort Sumner, according to his ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.chavezfuneralhome.com/obituary/a-j-harden">obituary</a>. He worked as a logger and a trucker before settling back down in his hometown. ;<br>According to his son, Tommy, the grandfather of four never retired and ran a hamburger stand in town with his wife of over 50 years, who died in 2016. ;<br>Candy Jo Webb, is now awaiting extradition to New Mexico to face a charge of first-degree murder, police said.</p>



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New Mexico fugitive is captured in Florida, 27-year-old faces murder charges after feeding grandfather fatal cocktail of drugs, stuffed body in a tool chest – Candy Jo Webb killed granddad, 83, ‘because she wanted his house’
