By Roger Lanse

UPDATE:

At a July 24 arraignment hearing in Silver City’s 6th Judicial District Court, which turned into a kind of impromptu release hearing, according to district court staff, an attorney for Molynda Brewer requested her release. However, that request was denied and she was remanded to the Grant County Detention Center where she remains in custody under a $100,000 cash only bond.

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Grant County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 2450 Highway 61, Mimbres, on Saturday, March 25, at approximately 8:52 p.m., in reference to a caller who advised that 67-year-old Walter Risdon Biebelle of Mimbres, had shot himself.

A 43-year-old female, Molynda Brewer, 43, homeless, of Hurley, who made the initial call to the Grant County Regional Dispatch Authority, and who was at the residence when deputies arrived at about 9:10 p.m., was taken later that night into investigative detention, handcuffed, transported to GCSD, interviewed and released.

Brewer was arrested on unrelated charges by Silver City police officers on April 3, and booked into the Grant County Detention Center on that date, according to GCDC staff. She was subsequently served with an arrest warrant on May 24, while she was in custody at GCDC, charging her, in the Biebelle case, with an open count of murder, criminal trespass, and two counts of battery on a household member. She remains incarcerated under a $100,000 cash only bond,

According to official documents, when deputies entered the residence they observed pooled and/or dried blood throughout the home; on floors, walls, tables, chairs, stove, a bed, paper towel rolls, and on clothes which apparently had been worn by the victim. Outside, the victim’s walker was found on its side with dried blood on it.

After going through much of the house following the blood trail, deputies found the victim sitting on the floor of a bedroom with his back against the room’s west wall, the reports said. The victim was so covered in blood that the extent of his injuries could not be determined by deputies. The victim was preliminarily pronounced deceased by deputies, and EMS personnel later confirmed that, according to the reports.

According to an Office of the Medical Investigator report, Biebelle died from hemorrhaging from scalp lacerations due to blunt head trauma. The OMI report cited investigative documents which stated the victim was struck on the head by a kitchen cutting board during a physical altercation with another individual.

Signs of a struggle inside the residence were noted, the reports stated.

Deputies indicated the incident was alcohol related.