A Missouri woman has been charged with the murder of a person whose body police found burning outside her Columbia home.
Prosecutors charged 20-year-old Emma Rose Adams with Murder 2nd Degree, Armed Criminal Action, Tampering with Physical Evidence in a Felony Prosecution, and Abandonment of a Corpse.
Court documents reveal more about the death but not the victim’s identity.
The probable cause statement said that the mother of a University of Missouri student called the University of Missouri Police on January 10 to ask for a wellness check on her son.
The woman said she had not spoken to her son since January 9 at 10:30 pm.
MUPD checked the man’s dorm room in Hudson Hall and did not find him. Cameras at the dorm showed the man getting in a ride share on January 9 at 10:40 pm.
MUPD contacted Uber and found the man’s last location: the longitude and latitude coordinates matched an address in the 2400 block of Bentley Court in Columbia.
At that address, police found a human body smoldering in a fire pit.
According to the probable cause statement, when asked who was in the burn pit, Adams told the arresting officers, “he was beating me.”
The officer said that Adams admitted to stabbing the man in self-defense.
Adams was being held in the Boone County Jail on a $1,000,000 bond.
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