KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Court records provide a clue about what may have happened to the body of Heather Kelley, the mother of eight who disappeared more than a year ago in Kalamazoo County and is presumed dead.
A witness told police that the boyfriend accused in her murder admitted to killing her and disposing of her body in a dumpster.
Despite that, police have not searched any landfills and say they aren’t planning on it.
Police say there’s plenty of evidence that Kelley, 35, of Portage, was killed in December 2022 and that her obsessive boyfriend, Carlos Watts Jr. , 39, is the killer.
What they don’t have is her body, despite months of searching.
“Obviously our goals were to find the person who did this and hold them accountable that process is currently ongoing — and, secondly, our main concern is trying to find her, for no other reason than to bring some closure to the family,” Portage Department of Public Safety Director Nicholas Armold said.