MERIDIAN – Detectives with the Idaho State
Police served an arrest warrant this morning charging Douglas Everett Anderson,
58, formerly of Emmett, with the first degree murder of Darole Carpenter on
July 8, 2013. Anderson was also charged
with four additional felony charges including forgery and three counts of grand
theft. Anderson was arrested, without
incident, near his residence in Salmon, Idaho by the Idaho State Police with
assistance of the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives with the Emmett Police Department
requested the assistance of the Idaho State Police in the death
investigation. The body of 78-year-old
Darole Carpenter was found in his home in Emmett in July bludgeoned in the head
and repeatedly stabbed in the abdomen.
The manner of death had not been released as investigators wanted to
keep that information confidential in the hopes it would lead them to a
suspect.
Evidence in the murder case includes a spot of Carpenter’s
blood in Anderson’s vehicle that has been confirmed by DNA testing by Idaho
State Police Forensic Services.
Additionally, police have obtained video evidence
placing Anderson’s vehicle at Carpenter’s residence at the time of the murder.
Investigators believe that Anderson killed
Carpenter in an attempt to hide that he had defrauded him of approximately $30,000
in two different transactions. Anderson promised to purchase cattle and hay
with Carpenter’s money without any intention of making the purchase. These two transactions account for two of the
three felony counts of grand theft.
The other count of grand theft and the forgery
count stem from a transaction in which Anderson also defrauded another Idaho couple. Those charges stem from a transaction in
which Anderson forged the signature of his wife on a promissory note in which Anderson
also promised to purchase cattle and hay with approximately $230,000 received from
the couple under false pretenses.
The Idaho State Police thanks the City of Emmett’s
Police Department for their work on this case.
ISP also extends its gratitude to Mr. Carpenter’s neighbors, friends and
members of his church congregation for their assistance in this investigation.
Anderson is being held in the Lemhi County Jail
on a $1,000,000 bond. He will be
arraigned in Lemhi County on Monday.
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