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- A New Mexico woman accused of lethally drugging her 83-year-old Navy veteran grandfather and then stuffing his body into a tool chest has been busted in Florida after fleeing across at least six states.Candy Jo Webb, 27, was nabbed Thursday by U.S. Marshals in Jacksonville, just over a week after she was charged in the killing of her grandfather, AJ Harden, in Fort Sumner.Police say Webb gave Harden Buy Ambien India and Xanax, and after he died, she stuffed him into a tool chest.Then she drove her grandfather's remains to 1976 Shenandoah Drive, on the outskirts of Fort Sumner, where she dumped them, police said. Candy Jo Webb, 27, (left) is accused of giving her grandfather AJ Harden (right) a fatal dose of Xanax and Ambien and stuffing his dead body into a tool chestFort Sumner is a rural town of just over 1,000 people in East Central New Mexico that's the burial site of famed Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid. Residents at the address found the tool box and called police October 15. State police found the remains, which were mostly bones, according an arrest affidavit viewed by the   RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Tennessee man, 52, and his girlfriend, 22, 'lure woman into... Investigators solve the 1968 cold case rape and murder of...



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Duct tape still bound Harden's wrists and covered his mouth. Dentures, shoes, and clothing were found with the remains. A doctor's note in a shirt pocket had Harden's name on it.Police learned that Webb had previously lived on the property with an ex-boyfriend, Ambien prescription c o d before she moved in with her grandfather on Lake Sumner.  On the Shenandoah Drive property, New Mexico state police found in a tool chest mostly bones, but also dentures, clothing and shoes. A shirt pocket held a doctor's note with Harden's name on it Police found that duct tape still bound Harden's wrists and covered his mouth, according to an arrest affidavitCops interviewed Webb, who told them she had moved Harden into a hospice care facility in Texas several months prior but couldn't remember the name. Later she told them the home was called 'Shady Oaks,' and an aunt whose name she 'does not know' had checked him out. Police later found there was no such retirement home. Retirement checks were still going out to Harden, they learned, and they were still registered to the home he had deeded to his granddaughter, according to the affidavit.Police spoke to Webb's boyfriend, according to the document. He said Webb had told him that her grandfather ordered her to kill him.Webb gave Harden Buy Ambien Online 5mg and Xanax and 'waited for his heart to stop,' the boyfriend allegedly told police.   Police discovered that Harden's granddaughter Webb had lived with an ex-boyfriend on the Shenandoah Drive property before moving in with her grandfather on Lake SumnerHe told cops he called Webb a liar. 'You killed him because you wanted his house,' he said he told Webb, the Journal reported.  She then broke down crying, the boyfriend told police, according to the affidavit. Webb was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence October 28 by the De Baca Magistrate Court, and a warrant for her arrest was issued.When they learned that Webb had fled the state to avoid apprehension, New Mexico State Police alerted the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Apprehension Service, according to They caught up with her in Jacksonville, where Monday she was being held as a fugitive from justice in the John E. Goode Pre-trial Detention Facility.   After fleeing the state, Webb was apprehended Thursday by U.S. Marshals in Jacksonville, Fla.Harden was a Navy veteran who was born and raised in Fort Sumner, according to his According to his son, Tommy, the grandfather of four never retired and ran a hamburger stand in town with his wife of over 50 years, who died in 2016. One of Harden's granddaughters, Candy Jo Webb, is now awaiting extradition to New Mexico to face a charge of first-degree murder, police said.