Charges filed in death of missing Kansas City woman years after she disappeared
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Two people are charged in connection with the death of 22-year-old Abbi Schaeffer.
Schaeffer disappeared in March 2022. Her remains were found nearly a year later in a box near 95th Street and Blue River Road.
Now, nearly three-years after Schaeffer disappeared, Jackson County Prosecutors have filed charges in the case.
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Jacob Block and Eunice Carlo-Martinez are each charged with:
- Abandonment of a corpse
- Tampering with evidence.
The victim’s family told investigators that she had a tracking app on her cell phone and it last pinged at a Jackson County residence.
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According to court records video showed Schaeffer getting into Block’s car. Additional video showed Block and Schaeffer walking into a Jackson County home, but never leading the house.
In the days following Schaeffer’s disappearance, court documents say surveillance video shows Block and Carlo-Martinez moving mop buckets into the residence.
Two days after the victim disappeared, doorbell video shows the two suspects loading a large black box into a U-Haul and leaving the area, according to prosecutors.
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Detectives searched cell phones belonging to Block and Carlo-Martinez. The investigators said they found photos and videos from inside the residence. There was also footage of the box, which match the description of the box with the skeletal remains, court documents show.
Facebook s belonging to the two suspects included messages indicating they gave the victim Fentanyl and she overdosed, according to court documents.
The medical Examiner’s Office said the remains were too decomposed to determine a cause of death. Tests did find traces of fentanyl in the victim’s brain tissue.
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