<p>ANDERSON, Ind. — An eastern Indiana woman has received the maximum prison term after pleading guilty to murder in the death of her mother.</p>
<p>Bonnie Katherine Joslin, 36, of New Castle woman was sentenced Wednesday to 65 years in prison by Madison Circuit Judge Angela Warner Sims, The (Muncie) Star Press reported.</p>
<p>Police said 53-year-old Mona Joslin Davis had been dead for two weeks when they found her body, wrapped in plastic bags, in her Anderson apartment in June 2019.</p>
<p>Joslin was arrested in New Castle a day after her mother’s body was discovered. She later told a fellow inmate in the Madison County jail she had used a pillow to suffocate her mother during an argument, court documents said.</p>
<p>Joslin also pleaded guilty to auto theft, false informing and identity deception. She called Madison County emergency dispatchers a few days after the homicide and claimed to be her mother, investigators said. She also allegedly stole a pickup truck her mother had borrowed from a friend.</p>
