The family of a man found buried in the backyard of a Riverside home is speaking out after he was allegedly killed by his roommate.
“I want that monster to know what a beautiful human being he took from us,” said Leona Hodo.
Hodo says she last spoke to her son, Bradley Minder on Saturday, Oct. 12 after his alleged housemate ransacked his room.
“He wanted to let me know that he is back at the house that he was cleaning up his room cause the man broke into his room and destroyed a lot of his stuff,” she said.
Three days later her son’s body was found buried in the backyard of the home.
Riverside police say they were called to a residents on the 8700 block of Sylvan drive after Minder had been not been seen or heard from for several days.
At the home, a man identified as 48-year-old Richard Thomas Martinez made statements claiming he killed his roommate.
Martinez was detained while detectives searched the home. Minder’s remains were found in the backyard buried.
The victim’s family say the two did not know each other and that Martinez stayed off and on at the home which belonged to his grandfather.