Valerie Mayo McGee, the girlfriend of the man charged in Friday’s double murder, helped destroy and conceal evidence and gave officers false information, Roanoke Rapids Police Department Deputy Chief Adam Bondarek said today.

McGee, 33, turned herself into police around noon Tuesday and was jailed on $250,000 bond.

She was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of first degree murder and armed robbery with a dangerous weapon.

McGee ceased communication with law enforcement and was entered into national criminal databases before giving herself up.

Gorham, who had his first appearance Tuesday, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed robbery.

Gorham, a convicted felon with a long criminal history, was charged in the murders of Maxine McCrary, 92, and her daughter, Nancy Burgess, 65, Saturday morning.

The murders occurred after he asked McCrary to use her phone as she talked to her son.

McCrary told her son a neighbor needed to use the phone and said she would call back.

Soon after that, McCrary and Burgess were stabbed to death and robbed of personal items.

When the victims didn’t call back police were called for a welfare check and officers walked into what police described as a brutal murder scene at McCrary’s home at 311 Highway 158.

Police received the call shortly before 11:15 Friday night and investigators worked until the morning following leads that led to the arrest of Gorham. He was found at an apartment on Oakridge Drive around 4:30 Saturday morning.

Bondarek said an official cause of death has not been filed by the medical examiner.  “The scene indicated an absolutely brutal crime,” he said.

As police worked to find Gorham, Bondarek said the State Bureau of Investigation assisted the police department by processing the multiple crime scenes.