Elderly Man Beaten To Death

Monday 7:30 p.m.
Biloxi police have charged Jeremy Radau and Megan Kinberger with capital murder in the beating death of Charles Pickell, 74. Both suspects are being held in the Harrison County jail without bond.

Monday 5:45 p.m.Biloxi police are closing in on two suspects in the beating death of an elderly Gulf Coast man.

Charles Pickell, 74, was found dead Saturday afternoon in his home in the Beauvoir Manor apartment complex off Stennis Drive.

A neighbor, who doesn't want to be identified, heard pounding on Pickell's door early Saturday morning and noticed two strangers outside the apartment.

He confronted the strangers, but was told by Pickell himself that everything was okay. Still uneasy about the situation, the neighbor used a video camera to record the pair leaving the apartment.

"There's been some other stuff happening out here, so I just left it (the camera) set up by my window there," said the neighbor. "I just picked it up and started recording."

Investigators identified Jeremy Radau and Megan Kinberger as the suspects on the tape. Both were arrested Saturday afternoon and are locked up on an unrelated burglary charge from Gulfport.

Captain Darrin Peterson of the Biloxi Police Department says he expects to charge the pair with Pickell's murder soon. Peterson says crime scene investigators, who returned to the scene Monday, are still looking for a motive.