Mississippi Sheriff and 12th Judicial District Investigators Collaborate to Apprehend Suspects in 3 Murders

On Jan. 22, officers responded to a call about a burnt body inside a car in the 100 block of Nogal Canyon Road in Bent. When they arrived, they found a vehicle flipped on its roof, "still smoldering." Inside were the bodies of Killian Mayes, Mouser, and Perera, according to a criminal complaint filed in Alamogordo Magistrate Court. The investigation of the alleged homicide was in an area about 30 miles north of Ruidoso. 

All three found at the vehicle had been fatally shot before the vehicle was intentionally set on fire, police said.

Inside the home where Killian Mayes, Mouser and Perera lived, less than a mile from where the vehicle was, officers found a bullet hole in the kitchen and a trash bag in the laundry room that had a shell casing and a pair of bloodied jeans inside, the complaint states.

According to the DA’s Office, investigators found three dead individuals and issued a “Be On the Look Out” alert for a vehicle in connection to the scene.

On January 31st the 12th Judicial District announced that suspects Kane Mayes and Cassandra Douglas were apprehended and had bern charged with the murder of the three individuals.

Per a release Kane Mayes was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, aggravated burglary, three counts of tampering with evidence, arson, two counts of unlawful taking of a vehicle, and conspiracy to commit unlawful taking of a vehicle.

Casandra Douglas was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and tampering with evidence.

Investigators then actively worked the case for roughly one week  locally and across state lines traveling to Roswell and Mississippi to execute search warrants and conduct more interviews seeking information concerning the multiple person murder. 

According to the DA’s Office, warrants for arrest were then issued for Kane Mayes and Casandra Douglas.

Suspect Kane Mayes was served a warrant. The suspect accused in a triple homicide in New Mexico turned himself over to authorities in Hernando, Mississippi according to the DeSoto County Mississippi Sheriff’s Office.

A search warrant in the 11100 block of Pecan Ridge Cove in Hernando Mississippi led to the arrest of Kane Mayes, accused in the shooting deaths of three people in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The DeSoto County Mississippi Sheriff’s Office. explained  that a detective from Alamogordo, New Mexico's 12th Judicial District task force had informed the Mississippi based sheriff’s office that the suspect, along with a vehicle stolen during the crime, was believed to be at the home in Hernando. The alert was jurisdictional. 

At the residence in Hernando, Mississippi, the Mississippi Sheriff's detectives reportedly recovered the 2015 Subaru Outback that had been reported stolen in relation to the homicides as a part of a "be on the lookout alert" along with “other items of evidentiary value.”

Kane Mayes under pressure in Mississippi in the toen just outside of Memphis Tennessee turned himself in at the Hernando Police Department and confessed to driving the stolen car from New Mexico to the home on Pecan Ridge Cove.

Kane Mayes was taken into custody and charged with Receiving Stolen Property – Felony and Fugitive from Justice. He is currently awaiting extradition back to New Mexico to face the other previously mentioned charges in connection with the local murders.

Casandra Douglas was served a warrant and was arrested on Monday, Jan. 27 in Roswell. She was transported to the Otero County Detention Center and arraigned in Magistrate Court on Friday, Jan. 31, the DA’s Office said.

Casandra Douglas is being held without bond and is pending a review of the conditions of release hearing.

The 12th Judicial District Major Crimes Unit is made up of investigators from the 12th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, Alamogordo Police Department, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Otero County Sheriff’s Office and the Ruidoso Police Department, and the Roswell Police the arrests included multistate support with the DeSoto County Mississippi Sheriff’s Office.

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