A Missouri man who reported his girlfriend lacking final week was charged with homicide the subsequent day.

Courtroom information say that Aaron Malone, 23, known as the Barry County Sheriff’s Workplace on November 25 to report the doable abduction of 24-year-old Aspen Lewis, KTVI experiences.

Investigators responding to the house discovered a big blood stain within the roadway behind Malone’s truck and items of bijou. Then they obtained surveillance footage that confirmed Malone arriving at Lewis’s house simply earlier than midnight on November 24. Shortly afterward, screaming was heard on the video.

Malone left the house at about 1:30 a.m. and returned simply earlier than 4 a.m. Earlier than he arrived, he known as 911 and reported Lewis lacking.

Deputies met with Malone later that day and introduced him with the proof they’d uncovered to this point. Malone then led them to Lewis’s physique, coated with leaves and sticks off a rural highway in Barry County. She had in depth head trauma.

Malone reportedly admitted to killing Lewis throughout an altercation and disposing of her physique, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

He was arraigned Tuesday on a homicide cost and pleaded not responsible, KTVI mentioned. He was ordered held with out bond.

Lewis was the mom of a younger son, in response to an obituary. No data was offered in regards to the boy’s whereabouts on the time of the homicide or the place he’s now.

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[Featured image: Aaron Malone and Aspen Lewis/Facebook]