(FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) — An Military soldier was arrested, although on deployment in Germany, for killing his grandfather and terrific grandmother in Chester County.

The sheriff thinks the soldier joined the Army to cover after investigators say he killed his grandparents, but it did not function. Detectives realized just the place to discover him, in which he was serving in Germany.

“It was just truly creepy to believe anything could have occurred actually terrible there,” mentioned Amber Moore, a neighbor in Chester County.

For almost a 12 months and a 50 %, the tiny community of Richburg was buzzing with questions around who killed a grandfather and a wonderful grandmother within a home on Doe Street.

“It’s a big shock almost everything coming out now that he did that to them,” claimed Moore.

Deputies say 24-12 months-aged Gene Alexzander “Alex” Scott termed 911 on Father’s Day 2020 and documented he uncovered his grandfather, who helped elevate him in the home, and his good grandmother useless.

“It’s frightening, it’s scary, but it’s unhappy additional than anything at all to know that total family’s getting to offer with that. That was somebody’s son, somebody’s grandson,” stated Moore.

Deputies didn’t know it at the time, but now they say the killer was proper in their backyard.

Investigators say Scott still left the Maritime Corps as an ammo tech in January 2020 and killed his grandfather, 61-year-outdated Gene Rogers, and his wonderful grandmother, 78-yr-outdated Billie Rogers, in June of that yr.

“I will say that the motive was economic. It was just a crime of dollars, greed,” said Chester County Sheriff Max Dorsey.

The sheriff suggests the Military did not know Scott was on Chester County’s radar and that Scott joined the Army in January of this calendar year.

“We did not come to feel we had sufficient proof at the time to carry costs, and so the Military did what they had to do inside the policies that they have,” claimed Sheriff Dorsey.

The sheriff states his group did not know Scott joined the Military and just as quickly as they observed out, Chester County was in touch with them about their soldier, but it wasn’t until eventually now, in October 2021, that they had adequate proof to arrest Scott.

“Because it was so tricky, it was so specialized, this was these kinds of a technological investigation, there were no eyewitnesses to the crime, you have to count on the circumstantial evidence and that forensic evidence, and it requires time,” stated Sheriff Dorsey.

The Chester County Solicitor’s Business tells FOX 46 that Scott is staying held in jail with no bond, and the earliest he will have a hearing will be December.

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