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March 28, 2024

Hearing set for 3, including daughter, in slaying of 68-year-old woman

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Autumn Cole

Three suspects arrested in woman's death

KSNV coverage of a Las Vegas woman's death and the arrest of suspects, Aug. 2, 2011.

A preliminary hearing will be in September for three people accused in the slaying of Katherine Cole, a 68-year-old Las Vegas woman found dead at her home in late July.

Autumn Cole, 44, the daughter of the victim, Joseph Perez, 44, and Lorenzo Cardenas-Sanchez, 37, will have their preliminary hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court Sept. 28 on multiple charges, including murder with a deadly weapon of an older person and being an accessory to murder, burglary, robbery and kidnapping.

Cole, Perez and Cardenas-Sanchez are being held at the Clark County Detention Center.

According to an arrest report, Perez, Autumn Cole’s boyfriend, said a man took Cole to her mother’s home in Las Vegas at 5 p.m. July 29. He said soon after she called him to come to the house.

When he arrived, according to the report, she was trying to put her mother’s body in the trunk of her car. Perez said he persuaded Cole to leave the body in the garage, and then stepped on her. The two then stole her mother’s white Acura Integra, “pushed her head out of the way” and drove off, the report said.

Perez told police he was the person who used Cole’s debit and credit cards at an ATM and a Kmart. After carrying out a search warrant, police found the cards in the car Cardenas-Sanchez was driving.

Cardenas-Sanchez told police he took not only Cole but Perez to Katherine Cole’s home on July 29.

He said both got out of the car, but that Autumn Cole came back to the car and Perez remained in the house. He took Cole back to her house and left. He said he later met up with Cole and followed her in her mother’s car to Arizona Charlie’s, where they left the car. He and Perez then went to an Arco AM-PM, Kmart, the ATM and El Super Market using Cole’s debit cards to make purchases, the report said. Police recovered the Acura in the casino parking lot, and casino surveillance video shows a person leaving the car and exiting in a red van.

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