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Man killed roommate, and lived with body in closet for 2 months
Roommate lived with decomposing body in barricaded closet for months, fear she would "come back from the dead."
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George Anthony Bone was arrested in Las Vegas after his roommate's family found her decomposing body in a barricaded closet.

LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man who is a convicted sex offender is accused of killing his roommate and lived with her decomposing body inside a barricaded closet for two months because he “believed she might come back to life,” according to law enforcement authorities.

George Anthony Bone, 31, was identified as the demented homicide suspect. He was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder once the victim’s family discovered her corpse inside the shared residence, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced in a press release.

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Beverly Ma was later identified as the victim. She was Bone’s longtime friend from high school who moved in with him last summer.

The accused killer reportedly told law enforcement authorities the woman committed suicide and had been dead for “a while,” according to court documents.

The homicide was discovered when Ma’s family visited the home to discuss an unusually high bill related to air conditioning. Bone reportedly told a female family member that Ma was “dead and gone” and had been in the closet for two months before offering to show them her body. The discovery brought police to the scene.

“She noticed a cooler against the bedroom closet door and the bottom of the door had a towel, which covered the gap,” court documents read.

“George told her that she can open it and see.”

Although the cause of Ma’s death remains under investigation, detectives determined she was the victim of murder and believe she was likely strangled, according to court documents.

On May 4 police received a frantic 911 call from the residence. A man and a woman could be heard yelling, and the call ended with a woman’s voice asking, “Why?”

Officers responded and knocked at the door but no one answered and there were no outward signs of a crime, police said.

Hence, investigators believe May 4 was likely the day the woman was killed.

“When asked why he didn’t call for help, (when she allegedly committed suicide) Bone’s response was ‘I was afraid of going back to jail… for being found with a dead body,” according to court records.

Furthermore, Bone is accused of fraudulently using Ma’s financial accounts as her decomposing body remained in place.

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Las Vegas police investigate suspicious death where woman was barricaded in closet decomposing.

Investigators said he ordered more than 170 items that were charged to Ma’s Amazon account and used her phone to text a person saying she would be unable to attend a July 4 party because she “wanted to be sober, not travel and not be around people.”

In an effort to reportedly limit the number of flies attracted to the decomposing body in the home, he set the air conditioning to 60 degrees, authorities reported.

“That was me being simultaneously superstitious and um, just distraught,” Bone said of the statement. “Just watching too many horror movies and ghost stories growing up.”

Bone is being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.

Bone, 31, killed roommate, and lived with body in closet for months.

In 2012, Henderson police initially arrested Bone on charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a child stemming from allegations a teenager made about an assault two years prior when she was 11, documents said.

The student told a school employee that Bone had “inappropriately touched” her while he was living in a home with her, documents said.

In 2014, Judge Valorie Vega sentenced Bone to five years’ probation, records showed. That same year, a judge ordered Bone to serve 90 days in prison for a probation violation. The violation involved a cell phone with “graphic photos of a young female,” transcripts said.

The transcripts also indicated Bone was a martial arts instructor.

In 2015, Bone violated probation again, records showed. Judge Kerry Earley sentenced him to 24-96 months in prison, records showed. He was released from custody in February 2020, a Nevada Department of Corrections spokesperson said.

In addition to an open murder charge, Bone also faces a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, records showed. Bone is listed in the Nevada Sex Offender Registry under a different address than where police responded on Wednesday, records showed.

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