Murder Suspect Arrested in New Mexico

A suspect in the Grove murder of Bob Thurman, 61, who lived in the Orchard Grove apartments, has been arrested in Raton, NM and has provided officers there with a full confession, according to a statement released Thursday by the Grove Police Department.
Mark Henry Thurman, age 23 and son of Bob Thurman, was arrested shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday evening in Raton, which is near the Colorado border, where he had checked into a motel. Officers were able to locate a vehicle, which they said Thurman took from the crime scene in Grove, as well as "several items of evidence."
Thurman was charged Thursday with First Degree Murder in District Court.
Grove Police Chief Mark Wall said he wished to thank all of the news media in the area for their assistance in attempting to locate Thurman and his vehicle, which belonged to the deceased.
Thurman had been released from the Moberly, MO. state penitentiary on Monday where his parents picked him up and drove back to Grove. Tuesday afternoon officers learned that Thurman called his mother on her cell phone and told her that his father had been shot and that he might be dead, Wall said. Thurman was reportedly headed to California.
Thurman had served time in Missouri for first degree burglary and a parole violation, according to court records, and was released Monday on probation.
Chief Wall also thanked the investigators from OSBI and crime scene technicians as "their assistance was invaluable" in capturing the suspect.