Cover-up fails: Fugitive couple arrested after allegedly killing a man and setting him ablaze
"Witnesses observed an altercation between the three listed individuals, resulting with Mr. Beine making threats to kill Mr. Hamblin and Ms. King encouraging Mr. Beine to do so."
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A couple on the run from state and federal law enforcement were taken into custody on Thursday for the alleged murder of a man whose body was found alight in a fire pit earlier this summer.
On Aug. 20, the Franklin County Municipal Court issued arrest warrants for Miranda King, 24, and Robert Beine, 42, on charges of murder and gross abuse of a corpse over the slaying of William Hamblin, 43, and the alleged subsequent efforts to cover up his violent death
“Through the course of the investigation, detectives determined there was an ongoing dispute between Mr. Hamblin, Robert Beine and Miranda King, Mr. Beine’s girlfriend, in regards to some property which was stolen from Mr. Hamblin,” detectives wrote in a complaint. “On July 6, 2023, witnesses observed an altercation between the three listed individuals, resulting with Mr. Beine making threats to kill Mr. Hamblin and Ms. King encouraging Mr. Beine to do so.”
The altercation between the defendants and their alleged victim apparently passed. Then, two days later, King and Beine were seen on surveillance footage walking with a third person near the area where Hamblin’s burning body was eventually discovered, the CPD alleges.
Shortly after that, flames could be seen in the video, police say.
