GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Two Neelyville, Mo., residents were ordered to stand trial Friday morning for the shooting deaths of two people whose bodies were found by firefighters inside a travel trailer.
Nicholas L. Suiter, 31, and Felicia K. Crumley, 26, were to appear before Associate Circuit Judge Randy Schuller for preliminary hearings in the cases.
Suiter is charged with two Class A felonies of first-degree murder, two unclassified felonies of armed criminal action, the Class D felony of second-degree arson and the Class C felony of second-degree burglary.
Crumley is charged with two Class A felonies of second-degree murder, the Class D felony of second-degree arson and the Class C felony of second-degree burglary.
Suiter, after meeting with his attorney, Wayne Williams with the Public Defender's Office in Farmington, Mo., signed a written waiver.
Crumley also met with her attorneys, Adam Cartwright and David Ward with the Public Defender's Office, and signed a written waiver.
Both waivers were presented to and accepted by Schuller, who ordered Suiter and Crumley to appear at 9 a.m. July 14 before Circuit Judge Sidney Pearson III for arraignment on the charges.
Both are charged with causing the deaths of Jimmy Lavoid Atchley, 70, of Wappapello, Mo., and Nancy Sisco, 48, of Neelyville.
Atchley and Sisco were found inside his travel trailer after a fire was seen and reported by a neighbor between 5 and 5:30 a.m. Oct. 8.
When firefighters with the Wappapello Fire Department arrived, they found a camper and four-wheeler fully engulfed, according to earlier reports.
Two burnt bodies, later identified as Atchley and Sisco, were found after the fire was put out. Subsequent autopsies showed both had been shot.
A home on the property, owned by Atchley's son also was burglarized and between 20 and 30 guns allegedly were stolen.
As the investigation progressed, Suiter and Crumley reportedly were developed as persons of interest. Suiter was Sisco's cousin.
The pair subsequently were arrested and interviewed.
Both, according to Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch's probable-cause statement, admitted to burglarizing the mobile home.
"Mr. Suiter admitted to shooting both victims and setting the travel trailer on fire," Finch said.
Crumley initially denied any knowledge about the deaths, but later provided information as to where the victims had been shot.