Jason Arrant is accused of murdering and conspiring to murder ex-girlfriend Rachelle Waterman's mother, Lauri Waterman, with co-conspirator Brian Radel. He is currently on trial for first degree murder charges. The two 24 year olds are accused of murdering the 48-year old mother of two using a blunt object shortly after midnight on the morning of November 14, 2004. During the time of the murder Rachelle Waterman was attending a volleyball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska. The minivan in which the killing took place was subsequently burnt in an attempt to conceal and destroy evidence. Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, aka smchyrocky, (born August 26, 1988) is a teenage girl from Craig, Alaska, USA who has been charged with the first degree murder of her mother. ... Anchorage, Alaska is a consolidated city-borough (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) in the U.S. state of Alaska. ...

The murder is alleged to have been planned for several months.