Police have arrested a 54-year-old woman and charged her with murder after another woman was found dead in a Mississippi house last week.

Officials say the woman may who was found dead Wednesday had been dead for at least six months, maybe as much as a year.

WJTV News in Jackson reports that Phyllis Tiller Watts was arrested Friday.

The Laurel Leader-Call reports that Laurel Police discovered the body Wednesday evening in a house on Lindsey Avenue in Laurel.

Police have not released the identity of the woman.

The body has been sent to the Mississippi Crime Lab for an autopsy.