Woman Arrested In LA Triple Homicide

LOS ANGELES, CA — Police arrested a woman in connection with the bludgeoning deaths of two men and a woman in South Los Angeles Thursday. Adding to the murder mystery, Los Angeles detectives arrested caretaker Nancy Amelia Jackson, 55, early Thursday morning but declined to identify her as a suspect or 'person of interest' in the Leimert Park deaths of three people.

Los Angeles Police Capt. Peter Whittingham told the Los Angeles Times rather cryptically, "You just never know; these things are not always the way they seem."

Detectives arrested Jackson shortly after midnight, and she is being held without bail. Detectives questioned her for hours after a family member found the bodies of Peter White, 62, and his parents , 77- year-old Orsie Carter, and her husband, 82-year-old William Carter. All three were found in White's home.

The bodies were found around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday inside the home in the 3900 block of South Bronson Avenue. Police said the bodies were discovered by a relative who went to check on Peter White, a severely disabled man who loved at the home. According to police, all three victims suffered blunt force trauma to the head, while White and his mother were also shot.

Police said Wednesday they wanted to talk to Jackson, who may have been a caretaker for White, who was described as being severely disabled. Reports from the scene indicated that Jackson may have been romantically linked to White and had been living in the home.

Police only referred to her as a person of interest or possibly a material witness, not a suspect.

According to police, a neighbor called one of White's relatives -- possibly his son -- Tuesday after noticing that Orsie Carter's car had been parked at the home for an unusually long time; White's parents did not generally stay overnight. When the relative came to the home, he spotted the bodies when he looked in a bathroom window.

City News Service and Patch staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report. Photo: Shutterstock