Jasper Aristotle Smiddie, grandson of homicide victim Gloria Henfrich, was arrested Wednesday in Highlands County, as he exited an abandoned house near his girlfriend’s home. The 19-year-old has been charged with first degree murder in the death of the grandmother who housed and fed him.

Gloria Henfrich was found dead in her Lake Wales home Tuesday morning by deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Dept. According to a PCSO spokesperson, the autopsy revealed she had sustained 93 stab wounds, bruising to the face by a pipe wrench, and was also shot in the back of the head with a crossbow.

Details of the crime started emerging Tuesday around 3:40 a.m. when Smiddie telephoned his father in Tampa, telling him he had “gotten into problems, and had done something stupid,” the PCSO reported. He then told his father, David Asbery, that his grandmother was dead. Asbery prompted him for more information, and Smiddie advised he had “blacked out and woke up two hours later with blood all over his hands and all over his grandmother.” He then admitted that he had stabbed her. Asked by his father how many times, “was it one, two, 47?” Smiddie said “Closer to the 47.”

According to the arrest affidavit from the PCSO, Asbery believed he had talked Smiddie into coming to his home in Tampa to turn himself in, but he never showed up. After an hour passed and Asbery was unable to reach Smiddie by phone, he called the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Dept. which transferred him to the PCSO to report the information.

Around 7:41 a.m., deputies went to the home and told Helfrich’s unsuspecting son, Dustin, (who also lived with her) that a possible homicide had been reported.

Dustin Smiddie had noticed, when he got home from work at 8 p.m., that his mother’s silver Toyota Rav-4 was not in the driveway, but he told investigators he assumed she was at work. Helfrich was a senior health unit coordinator at Winter Haven Hospital.

The deputies tried the door to Helfrich’s bedroom and found it locked. They kicked it down and found her within, wrapped in a blanket and deceased from an “obvious homicide,” according to a PCSO interim report.

Jasper was nowhere to be found. According to the evidence as it unfolded, he took his grandmother’s car and eventually made his way to an abandoned house near the home of his 14-year-old girlfriend in Sebring, investigators said. He reportedly had a 14-year-old neighbor with him as well.

Jasper Smiddie was previously arrested Jan. 30 for transporting his girlfriend from her father’s home and hiding her in his bedroom in Lake Wales, according to reports. The juvenile was reported as a runaway after Jasper refused to return her. He told authorities that he believed she was being abused by her father, so he was trying to get her out of the environment.

Dustin was the contact person in that incident as well, having answered the door and allowed deputies to go into Jasper’s room, where they found the girl. She was returned to her father in Sebring, and Jasper was arrested and charged with interfering with custody of a minor child. The next day, he was released on bond.

At a press conference Wednesday, Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters that Jasper Smiddie told investigators he was actually mad at his uncle and had initially planned to kill him, but decided that he could hurt Dustin Smiddie more by killing his mother, Gloria Helfrich.

Judd said the PCSO does not know at this point the exact reason for Jasper’s anger at his uncle. Judd said there are more unanswered questions now than when the investigation started.

Jasper’s first appearance, before Judge Mary Catherine Green, was held Thursday at 1 p.m. The hearing, where he appeared via television from the jail rather than in person, revealed a polite and quiet side of the defendant, who referred to the judge as “ma’am.” He was ordered held without bond and assigned a public defender.