Missouri
Woman admits to fatally stabbing autistic University of Missouri student, burning body in fire pit: cops
A 20-year-old Missouri girl informed police she fatally stabbed a university scholar with autism after cops discovered the person’s smoldering stays in her yard hearth pit.
The scholar, who has high-functioning autism, was reported lacking from the College of Missouri and was final seen taking an Uber to the house of Emma Adams, Columbia police said
Campus police arrived at Adams’ residence to carry out a wellness examine and smelled burning flesh, officers mentioned.
Officers then discovered stays inside a hearth pit and a bloody folding pocket knife. Cops additionally found a cellphone matching the outline of the sufferer’s submerged in a sink full of water.
Blood was additionally discovered inside a automobile on the home, inside the house and within the yard. A chunk of lacking mattress was burning inside the hearth pit.
Police mentioned the stays had been burned past recognition and avoided figuring out the sufferer, although officers mentioned they “have a good suggestion of who the sufferer is.”
Adams, who had denied understanding the coed when police arrived at her home, allegedly admitted to stabbing him in self-defense and tried to cowl up the killing with a hearth.
“He was beating me,” Adams informed police, in line with the Columbia Missourian.
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Adams, who isn’t an MU scholar, was charged with second-degree homicide, armed felony motion, tampering with bodily proof and abandonment of a corpse.
Adams was within the Boone County Jail on Wednesday on a $1 million cash-only bond.
The id of the sufferer was not instantly launched.