ROSE HILL, Kan. (KSNW) — Rose Hill Police have given an update on the investigation into the death of a child whose body was found buried in the backyard of a home in September.
Chief Taylor Parlier tells KSN News that the investigation is still ongoing.
While we would like to have decisions made by months end, some search warrants are taking significantly longer to become available than we had hoped. As from the beginning, this case will be based upon data stretching many years.
Taylor Parlier, Rose Hill Police Chief
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The investigation began on Tuesday, Sept 10, when Rose Hill Police were called to a distressed person at a home off Rose Hill Road near Rosewood Street. They soon learned of a possible homicide that had previously occurred.
The following day, they recovered the body of a child in the backyard. She was later identified as Kennedy Jean Schroer, the adopted child of the home’s residents.
She was born on July 14, 2014, and investigators believe she died in November 2020, when she would have been six years old.