Elderly man accused of roommate and dog's 'brutal' murder had extensive criminal record

An aged antheral has been arrested successful transportation with what constabulary person dubbed the "brutal murder" of his roommate and her canine past utilizing her recognition cards to effort to fly the country.

Just earlier 2 p.m. connected Nov. 18, officers from the Austin Police Department were called to a location successful notation to a dormant person.

When officers arrived, they recovered a woman, aboriginal identified arsenic Linda Mlsna 83, and a canine dormant wrong the home. Mlsna had not been heard from successful six days, according to tribunal documents obtained by FOX 7 Austin.

APD Homicide Det. Israel Pena said successful a Nov. 21 quality briefing that a neighbour had approached the location and detected an "odor accordant with decomposition and alert enactment oregon insect enactment successful the windows of the residence."

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Austin constabulary person arrested and charged an aged antheral with a "very brutal" deadly onslaught connected his roommate and her dog. He past allegedly utilizing her recognition cards to acquisition respective acquisition cards and planned to fly the country. (Austin Police Department)

A household subordinate who lived locally besides reported entering the location and uncovering Mlsna successful a downstairs closet with a dormant canine connected apical of her, tribunal documents said.  

When Austin officers got wrong the home, they besides recovered a breached portion of furnishings and further grounds of a disturbance, which Pena said confirmed officers' content that her decease was a homicide.

The archetypal probe showed Mlsna’s roommate, 84-year-old Jack Moore, was not astatine the location and nary 1 knew wherever helium was. However, investigators aboriginal discovered that Moore allegedly utilized Mlsna’s recognition cards to marque fraudulent purchases aft her death.

Officers were yet capable to find Moore and arrested him connected an unrelated warrant.

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An 84-year-old antheral was arrested for execution aft sidesplitting his aged roommate and her dog, the Austin Police Department said during a quality briefing. (Austin Police Department)

During an interrogation with detectives, Moore allegedly confessed to sidesplitting Mlsna and her dog, taking her recognition cards and making a program to fly the country.

Moore besides told constabulary that helium was acrophobic Mlsna's household was going to determination her retired to a nursing location due to the fact that of her precocious property and claimed helium knew she wanted to unrecorded successful the location until her death. He besides admitted to sidesplitting her dog due to the fact that helium wanted him to beryllium with her forever, according to the apprehension affidavit via FOX 7.

A hunt warrant for the location uncovered humor successful respective areas and a compartment telephone belonging to Mlsna, which showed respective substance connection alerts from assorted fiscal institutions astir suspicious purchases made with respective of her recognition cards, each implicit an eight-day play astatine 1 store, the study read. 

Mlsna's household told constabulary Moore had been stealing wealth from her.

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Mlsna's decease is being investigated arsenic Austin's 63rd homicide of 2024. (Austin Police Department)

Police went to the store linked to the theft to get surveillance video of respective of the purchases and discovered Moore had allegedly purchased 36 acquisition cards implicit 21 abstracted transactions. Police said respective of those purchases were made during the clip Mlsna was known to beryllium dead.

Moore was arrested by US Marshals connected a parole usurpation for carjacking astatine an flat astir 3 and a fractional miles distant from Mlsna's home.

A hunt of the flat wherever Moore was arrested uncovered implicit 30 acquisition cards and receipts, recognition cards issued to Mlsna and women's jewelry, the affidavit said.

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It was besides uncovered during the probe that Moore had an extended transgression record, including slope robberies and clip served successful prison.

Moore was arrested connected a complaint of first-degree execution and a parole usurpation for felony carjacking. He is presently being held astatine the Travis County Jail connected a $1 cardinal bond. 

According to the police, this lawsuit is being investigated arsenic Austin's 63rd homicide of 2024.

Stepheny Price is writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to stepheny.price@fox.com