Police: 1 suspect confesses to killing woman in Monroe

According to court records, police say Lay confessed to killing Amy Risner on Tuesday. Mattox did “purposely cause the death” of the 32-year-old, according to the complaint signed by Detective Aaron Ledford.

Lay, of Mason-Montgomery Road in Mason, and Mattox, of Edgewood Drive, in Trenton, both had bonds of $1 million set during video arraignments on Thursday. Their preliminary hearings were set for 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Police were called shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday on a report of an unresponsive person in the 100 block of Anne Road in Monroe. Risner was pronounced dead at the scene, and her death was ruled a homicide Wednesday by the Butler County Coroner’s Office.