Capital Murder Indictment Returned In Death Of Central Texas First Grader

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(October 25, 2007)—The Navarro County Grand Jury Thursday handed up a capital murder indictment against Shaun Earl Arender, 19, who’s charged in the rape and slaying of 6-year-old Hanna Mack, whose body was found hanging in the garage of her family’s home.

District Attorney R. Lowell Thompson told News 10 a decision on whether to seek the death penalty at trial would be forthcoming.

Arender was already in jail on unrelated burglary and drug possession charges when authorities served the capital murder arrest warrant last month after DNA collected from the shirt the girl was wearing produced a positive match in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System or CODIS.

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Dana Mack found her daughter’s body on Sept. 10, hanging in the garage of the family’s home in Navarro Mills, less than a mile from Arender’s residence.

The girl had just started first-grade at Blooming Grove Elementary when she was killed.

Arender remains in the Navarro County Jail.

State District Judge John Jackson refused a request to reduce Arender’s bond from $2.5 million to $30,000.

The Navarro County Grand Jury also indicted Kevin Anders, boyfriend of Hanna's mother, who was arrested early in the investigation after police discovered pornography stored on his computer.

He was named in an indictment charging possession of pornography.

He remains in Navarro County Jail, as well.

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