Suspect admits killing two nuns in Mississippi but fails to reveal motive

A man arrested over the murder of two nuns at their Mississippi home has confessed to the killings, a sheriff said.

Rodney Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, is charged with capital murder over the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68.

Willie March, the sheriff of Holmes County said he had been briefed by police from the town of Durant where the killings occurred and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials who took part in Sanders’ interrogation.