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Third Suspect Arrested for Butler County Murders

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A third suspect is in custody for the murders of two people who were found dead in a burned car in Butler County earlier this month.

Thirty-three year old Charles "Cotton" Lindsey was arrested Sunday in Bowling Green. Kentucky State Police transferred Lindsey to the Butler County jail where he's being held under a murder warrant.

Two other suspects in the double murder were arrested Friday afternoon by state police detectives in Bowling Green. Twenty-two year old Arlexis Kawai of Bowling Green and 21 year old Helen Rowe of Roundhill were booked into the Warren County Regional Jail on a charge of complicity to murder.

On November 9th. two charred bodies were found in a burned vehicle on Region-Reedyville Road in Butler County. The deaths were ruled homicides. Police have not released the victims' names or cause of death.