GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (AP) – Police say they were led to human remains buried on the property of a home in unincorporated Jackson County outside of Kansas City, Missouri, by a teenager who has accused the homeowner of sexual abuse.
The Kansas City Star, citing court records, reported that the teenage girl told police the homeowner had told her he killed a woman and hid the body. He also showed her photos of a woman’s dismembered body, the girl told investigators.
Independence police announced Wednesday that they had found human remains on property near Grain Valley amid a missing person investigation. Police have not identified the remains and declined to identify the missing person.
The homeowner, 40-year-old Michael Hendricks, has not been charged in the case of the remains found, but he has been charged and is being held on $500,000 bond on counts accusing him of sexually abusing the girl who reported the body to police.
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