Overview
- December Marie Mitchell and Jonathan James Mitchell are jailed on $250,000 bonds each, charged with tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.
- Investigators say a patrol-car recording captured the mother telling her husband statements such as "It was all me" and "I did this," as a cadaver dog searched the property.
- Officers found 26-year-old Jonathan Kinman in a shallow backyard grave wrapped in a camouflage blanket after a welfare check and a search with the Texas Rangers.
- An affidavit says the mother initially claimed her son died at a local hospital, but police found no record of a death or cremation; both parents had posted about a death on Facebook.
- New filings describe a bedroom cleared of the victim’s belongings, a mattress with signs and odor of decomposition, and hair evidence collected for DNA testing, while autopsy results remain pending.