{"id":252065,"date":"2026-04-04T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:01:45","slug":"co-defendant-arraigned-in-state-road-trailer-fire-death-pleads-not-guilty-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252065\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-defendant arraigned in State Road trailer fire death, pleads not guilty: Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The co-defendant, charged with setting <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/womans-body-identified-in-suspicious-mobile-home-fire-in-oildale-state-road-kern-county-bakersfield-california0-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">62-year-old Roxana Jo Kelley<\/a> on fire and killing her on State Road, was arraigned in court on Friday, according to Kern County court records.<\/p>\n<p>Misha Allen initially failed to appear on Wednesday. She pleaded not guilty to murder on Friday, April 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/suspect-pleads-not-guilty-in-state-road-trailer-fire-death-co-defendant-absent-crime-court-oildale-california-documents-hearing-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Graham was arraigned on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to murder<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: KBAK\/KBFX, Daughters and Grandchildren of Roxy{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775336505_150_9c657123-65ff-4c1b-9a00-4b5a0a9430ed-Untitled16.png\"\/>Photo: KBAK\/KBFX, Daughters and Grandchildren of Roxy<\/p>\n<p>A Kern County judge ruled on March 19 that <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-judge-orders-state-road-murder-case-to-trial-2-held-to-answer-court-docs-crime-oildale-kern-county-sheriff-deputies-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">there was sufficient evidence to proceed in a trial in the murder case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The case dates back to August 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/woman-burned-to-death-after-strangled-with-rope-in-state-rd-mobile-home-fire-court-docs-crime-oildale-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when Kelley&#8217;s body was found tied inside her trailer on State Road in Oildale after it caught fire, according to court documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents revealed that the rope around Kelley&#8217;s neck resembled &#8220;paracord or something similar made of nylon,&#8221; with one end featuring a metal clasp and the other tied in a knot.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS REPORTING: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/heavy-police-presence-reported-on-state-road-street-near-olive-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Body found in mobile home fire deemed &#8220;suspicious,&#8221; third fire in months<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allen and Graham are due in court for a readiness hearing on May 8 and are set for a tentative trial on May 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The co-defendant, charged with setting 62-year-old Roxana Jo Kelley on fire and killing her on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-252065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}