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Kansas Teen Charged With Killing Grandmother

Butler County authorities have charged a man and a woman in the death of the man’s 69-year-old grandmother.

Jacob Allen Hoyt and Lyndsey Renee Giovinazzo, both 19, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hoyt’s grandmother, Loyce Cody. She was found dead in her Augusta home Monday.

The Wichita Eagle reports that both defendants are also charged with arson and felony theft. They appeared in court separately Wednesday without lawyers and will have court-appointed attorneys at their next hearing.

They are being held on $1 million bond.

Augusta police found Cody’s body after relatives reported she had not shown up for work as a special education teacher at Cessna Elementary School in Wichita.

Hoyt and Giovinazzo were arrested Monday night.

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