Police officers dedicate their lives to protecting the innocent and serving justice by putting away the bad guys, but sometimes that’s not always what happens.
When police officers from West Virginia found a woman covered in blood after surviving a violent assault, they ended up having to arrest her and not her attacker when she wouldn’t cooperate. Hours after she made a delusional comment, however, the investigators realized the real victim was still out there…
Easter Sunday
On April 1, 2018, a family from Lerona, West Virginia were celebrating Easter Sunday when woman covered in blood showed up at their home. The woman wasn’t making sense and when she refused to leave their property, the family had no choice but to call the police.
The Police Arrive
Within a few minutes, police arrived at the home on Eden Valley Road and tried to figure out what exactly was going on. As the family told the 911 dispatcher, the woman was covered in blood and was wearing 1 glove when police showed up at the home…
An Assault Survivor
At first, the woman seemed to be cooperating with the police and gave them her name and told them that she had cut her fingers and the blood was her own. Soon after, however, the woman changed her story and told the officers that she had been attacked and thrown through a glass door.
A False Name
When police looked up the name the woman had given them, however, they realized she had lied as no one under that name existed. Police didn’t know what to believe, but they suspected the woman was either drunk or high on drugs…
Erratic Behavior
The officers at the scene just wanted to get the woman some medical attention and figure out if she really had been attacked or if she accidentally cut herself with the pocket knife she was holding in her hand. But when police asked more questions, her behavior only got more erratic.
Talking To ‘Daddy’
Police tried to determine exactly what happened by asking more questions, but it didn’t get them very far since the woman seemed to be having a conversation with an imaginary person who she called ‘Daddy.’ When she stopped responding to their questions, officers tried to tell the woman that she had to get off the family’s property…
Ordered To Leave
“I continued to inform the subject that she must go with the rescue squad or leave the property,” a deputy said about the bizarre situation. When police told the woman, she “became very irritated and began to scream at the squad workers on scene.”
An Uncooperative ‘Victim’
While the officers first believed the woman was a victim of assault, they didn’t know what to believe after speaking with her. Since she wouldn’t cooperate, they had no choice but to take her away in 1 of their squad cars and back to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department…
A Violent Tantrum
Police needed to figure out if the woman was under the influence or mentally unstable and whether or not a crime had been committed. Once the police got the woman in the back of the police car, she started getting violent and started kicking at the security partition.
Insane Ramblings
“You have to take me back and let me get my heads,” the woman screamed at the deputies during her violent tantrum as they drove her back to the sheriff’s department. Ordinarily, that would have made the officers pause, but they dismissed it as just more incoherent rambling…
Roena Cheryl Mills
When they arrived at the sheriff’s department, the officers searched the woman and claim they found narcotics on her. They also searched records and determined that the woman’s real name was Roena Cheryl Mills, a 41-year-old from Rural Retreat, West Virginia.
Another 911 Call
While Mills was in police custody, other officers on duty were dispatched to a home near Clover Lane, which was less than a mile away from the house on Eden Valley Road where police picked Mills up earlier that day. They didn’t know it at the time, but the 2 cases were connected by more than just geography…
Connecting The Dots
When investigators arrived at the house, they went inside and discovered a headless body. Some of the officers immediately thought about Mills’ bizarre demand earlier that day to go get her head. At the time, they thought she was delusional, but now, they had chills.
The Real Victim
Police identified the body as 29-year-old Bo White, and while searching the home for more clues and White’s head, they discovered a lone glove in the bedroom that matched the glove that Mills had been wearing earlier that day when she was arrested…
The Evidence Adds Up
Police were confident that Mills had something to do with the White’s murder, and according to the police, they had more proof that the 41-year-old was involved when they found another severed body part that belonged to White at the home where they found Mills.
The Missing Head
Later on, investigators managed to find White’s detached head in the woods that were nearby the home where the crime was committed. According to the police, witnesses claimed they saw a woman that matched the Mills’ description walking out of the woods that morning…
Devastating News
When police contacted White’s family to tell them what had happened, they were devastated and his father told investigators that White had been dating the 41-year-old. According to his family, they called him the ‘miracle child’ after he fought for his life when he was 15 and underwent a rare kidney transplant.
A Criminal History
Soon after, police charged Mills with second-degree murder. Police also found Mills had a criminal history and had previously been charged for assaulting an officer, indecent exposure, and public intoxication. Mills’ ex-husband also had a protective order against her after she threatened to kill him. “I told them to get dressed and come with me,” Mills’ ex-husband said of the day he tried to pick up their kids. “Roena Mills said she would blow my f—ing head off before I got them…”
Facing Decades In Jail
If Mills is convicted, she can face decades in jail. According to West Virginia law, “murder of the second degree shall be punished by a definite term of imprisonment in the penitentiary which is not less than 10 nor more than 40 years. A person imprisoned pursuant to the provisions of this section is not eligible for parole prior to having served a minimum of ten years of his or her sentence.”
Fit For Trial
Because of Mills’ erratic behavior, the judge ordered her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if she is competent to stand trial. After a court-appointed forensic psychologist evaluated Mills, she was determined to be competent to stand trial, and she was officially charged with first-degree murder, which carries an even heavier sentence if convicted. Her fate will be determined by a grand jury in June, and until then, she is being held on a $210,000 bond in Southern Regional Jail.
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