A man had a sinister plan to kill someone for about a week before bludgeoning his sister with a dumbbell and then stabbing her to death, Missouri authorities claim.

Craig Jones, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Taylar Hill, court records show. The harrowing scene unfolded Tuesday evening at a home in the suburbs of St. Louis.

Jones and his sister were at a home on the 1200 block of Bliss Drive in the city of Bellefontaine Neighbors on Tuesday evening when Jones hit her with a seven-pound dumbbell "several times on the head," according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime. He then allegedly "retrieved a steak knife and stabbed the victim" several times.

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