Overview
- Officers conducting an Oct. 14 welfare check at the Burleson home gathered information indicating Jonathan Kinnan was dead and buried on the property.
- Police returned with the Texas Rangers the next day and recovered Kinnan’s body from a shallow grave in the backyard.
- Kinnan’s mother, December Marie Mitchell, and stepfather, Jonathan Mitchell, were arrested on charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.
- The medical examiner has completed an autopsy but has not ruled on a cause of death.
- The couple is being held on $250,000 bond each, and investigators say further charges remain possible pending autopsy results.