FORT WORTH – A woman was arrested early Friday in connection with the beating and suffocation of a woman whose body was found burning in an secluded area near Lake Arlington.
Alexandria Flores, 22, was arrested without incident at the Magnuson Hotel in the 6700 block of Fossil Bluff Drive, police said. Police had received a call that Flores was at the north Fort Worth hotel.
Flores is the fourth person arrested in the death of Brittany "Pearl" Chappell, 30, a mother of two who was reported missing to Bedford police on Oct. 9.
Albert Martinez Jr., 29, Jeremy Myers 23, and Flores are accused of capital murder in Chappell's death. The fourth suspect, Brian Kendrick Thompson, is accused of tampering with physical evidence by helping to dump and burn Chappell's body after her death.
Martinez, Myers and Flores are accused of holding Chappell against her will and beating and suffocating her with a bag, then a shower curtain.
Chappell's body, burned beyond recognition, was discovered late Sept. 28 after a patrol officer spotted a grass fire in a wooded, secluded area in the 3500 block of South Cravens Road, on the far western edge of Lake Arlington.
Evidence indicated that an accelerant had been used to start the fire.
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