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A welfare check after a friend reported concerns about a man threatening suicide led officers to a Springdale home where a woman was found dead and her son was taken into custody. Frances Idell Rocha, 65, was discovered in her garage with a gunshot wound to the head on March 7, 2014. Officers forced entry after seeing large amounts of blood through windows and encountered her son, 36-year-old Scott Rocha, who emerged from a bedroom and admitted to shooting his mother, first calling it an accident.

Scott Rocha told police he and his mother had been arguing all night after he had been drinking, and said he accidentally shot her in the back of the head while waving a gun. Investigators say he then dragged her body to the garage, covered her with a towel, attempted to put her in a car, and later went out to buy more beer; he also told officers he threw the gun over the White River bridge. Scott Rocha was arrested on suspicion of capital murder and tampering with physical evidence and later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, receiving a life sentence in July 2015.

Did anyone in Springdale know Frances Rocha or have information about her relationship with her son that could shed light on what happened?