Overview
- December Marie Mitchell and Jonathan James Mitchell are jailed on $250,000 bond each, charged with tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.
- Police conducting an Oct. 14 welfare check returned with Texas Rangers on Oct. 15 and exhumed 26-year-old Jonathan Kinman from a shallow grave behind the home.
- An arrest affidavit says the mother first claimed her son died at a local hospital, but investigators found no record with the hospital or medical examiner.
- Affidavits describe patrol-car video capturing the mother telling her husband, “It was all me” and “I did this,” as cadaver dogs searched the property.
- Investigators noted the body was wrapped in a camouflage blanket, cited signs of decomposition on a bedroom mattress, and collected DNA for analysis while the cause of death remains undetermined.