Man tried to hide 22-year-old woman's body in a box after surveillance cameras captured his failed cleanup effort

A Missouri antheral admitted that helium tried to fell the body of a pistillate who went missing aft a imaginable overdose.

Jacob Block, 28, pleaded guilty to abandonment of a corpse and tampering with grounds successful transportation with the decease of 22-year-old Abbi Schaeffer, who was reported missing successful May 2022. According to a probable origin connection reviewed by Law&Crime, skeletal remains recovered wrong a breached container that was successful a ditch connected the broadside of a roadworthy were identified arsenic Schaeffer astir a twelvemonth later. An probe into her decease ne'er determined a definitive origin owed to the authorities of decomposition, but investigators said determination was fentanyl successful her system.

The Kansas City Police Department said Schaeffer was seen entering a home with Block the time she went missing — and ne'er came out.

According to the probable origin affidavit, Schaeffer's household said they saw her connected their Ring camera leaving their location connected May 23, 2022, and getting into a grey BMW on with her cat. They were capable to way her determination utilizing the Life360 app until May 24, 2022, erstwhile it pinged astatine different residence successful Missouri's Jackson County.

Police went to that location connected June 1, 2022, but nary 1 was there. A neighbour told constabulary that a achromatic antheral lived determination and regularly drove a "dark-colored" BMW. A U-Haul motortruck had besides been parked successful the driveway implicit the weekend. The neighbour besides spotted a cat, which matched the statement of Schaeffer's cat.

While Kansas City constabulary investigated the BMW and connected it with Block, it was besides discovered that national agents were monitoring the aforesaid car and the aforesaid fishy for an unrelated case. Block was convicted successful February 2024 of participating successful a conspiracy to administer fentanyl and distributing fentanyl successful transportation with an unnamed person's fatal overdose successful 2020.

According to probable origin affidavits, constabulary caught up with Block and Eunice Carlo-Martinez connected June 2, 2022. Block denied knowing Schaeffer and denied that she ever got into his car. But erstwhile detectives got a clasp of surveillance videos taken astatine the location wherever Schaeffer's Life360 app past pinged, they recovered some Block and Schaeffer walking wrong unneurotic connected the nighttime of May 23, 2022.

Police said Block and Carlo-Martinez were seen going successful and retired of the location the pursuing time "several times." Two days aft Schaeffer was past seen entering the house, Carlo-Martinez was allegedly seen "moving mops and buckets distant from the sliding solid door" astatine the backmost of the house. She besides allegedly pulled a powerfulness cord to deactivate 1 of the cameras, which came backmost connected astir 45 minutes later.

On the greeting of May 26, 2022, Block and Carlo-Martinez were allegedly seen loading a "large achromatic box-like object" into a U-Haul motortruck parked by the home.

Cameras ne'er captured Schaeffer leaving the residence.

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Detectives wrote that a hunt of Facebook accounts associated with Block and Carlo-Martinez indicated that the 2 allegedly gave Schaeffer fentanyl and she "suffered an overdose" the nighttime she went missing.

A container that resembled the aforesaid 1 Block and Carlo-Martinez were allegedly seen moving retired of their location was recovered successful a ditch connected the broadside of a roadworthy connected April 1, 2023. Inside were skeletal remains that were positively identified arsenic Schaeffer connected April 4, 2023. Brain substance recovered from the remains tested affirmative for fentanyl, THC, and benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, but owed to the authorities of Schaeffer's remains, "other manners of decease could not beryllium excluded, and mean toxicology could not beryllium ascertained."

Block and Carlo-Martinez were some charged with accessory to abandonment of a corpse and accessory to tampering with carnal evidence.

Block pleaded blameworthy to some charges against him and was sentenced connected Friday to six years successful prison. In January 2025, helium was sentenced to 20 years successful national situation for participating successful a conspiracy to administer fentanyl and distributing fentanyl.

Carlo-Martinez's lawsuit is inactive open. Her adjacent tribunal day was not available.