Man arrested in nuns' deaths has criminal record

A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections says the man arrested in the killing of two nuns in Mississippi has a criminal record and is currently on probation.

Grace Simmons Fisher says Rodney Earl Sanders was convicted of a felony DUI in Attala County and sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015.

He was later released from prison and is on probation.

Fisher says Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in Holmes County and served six years. He was sentenced Oct. 17, 1986 for that conviction.

Sanders was arrested late Friday in the deaths of two nuns whose bodies were found Thursday in their Mississippi home.

Holmes County Sheriff Willie March says Sanders has confessed to the killings during interrogation but gave no reason for the crimes.

March says he's been briefed by police from Durant, the town where the killings occurred, as well as Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials who took part in the interrogation.