Texas: The body of Heather Schwab, who had been missing for months, was found in her partner’s refrigerator. Him: “I didn’t know where to throw it.”

The body of a woman who has been missing for months has been found in her boyfriend’s freezer, badly decomposed in a case that has shocked the community. This happened in the town of McKinney, the capital of Collin County, Texas, according to American media reports.

Who is the victim?

Tamara, mother Heather Schwabwent to police in June to say that her daughter had not been heard from for months and that she was in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend, Chad Christopher Stevens. The case remained unsolved until November 3, when Tamara returned to police to say that Stevens’ ex-wife and her daughter had key information about the disappearance: He had apparently told them that Heather was dead and buried in his backyard.

The shocking discovery

Three days earlier, McKinney police obtained a search warrant for Stevens’ home, inside which they found a kitchen refrigerator covered in “copious” amounts of plastic wrap. After this discovery, Heather’s body was found. Stevens, 42, told police that Heather, 35, died at her home in June 2022, and that he didn’t know what to do with her body. He was then arrested at the scene on suspicion of tampering with evidence. Since his arrest, he has given several accounts of Heather’s disappearance. The first statement is that she died after slipping in the bathroom and hitting her head; Then he didn’t contact her for a year. The victim’s mother told investigators that her daughter had been abused by her boyfriend and that Heather had told her multiple times that she felt like Stevens was going to kill her sooner or later. An autopsy is currently being conducted to determine the cause of death.

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