Sentenced: 2 Charged, Body Found Buried Under Concrete, Cinder Blocks In Austin Backyard

[Sugar Cookie]

Austin Police say detectives following up on a 911 call discovered a body buried in the backyard of a South Austin home.

APD says they received a 911 call on Tuesday about the body and its location. Detectives made contact with the residents of the home, who they say gave consent to a search -- and in the backyard there appeared to be an area where a body could have been buried.

The officers secured the location and obtained a search warrant. The following day an excavation was conducted by homicide detectives, crime scene specialists, APD Bomb Squad, and the Austin Fire Department. That afternoon the body was recovered from the backyard.

The death is being treated as suspicious, APD said. Two people have been charged with second-degree felony tampering with evidence -- 22-year-old Walker Ray Kaatz and 36-year-old Kristie Michelle Cardenas.

An official ruling as to the official cause and manner of death is pending from the Travis County Medical Examiner's office.

Thursday night, empty bags of concrete and cinderblocks were still in the backyard of the home on Mojave Drive where the body was discovered. Neighbors told CBS Austin off camera the residents of the home were seen carrying cinderblocks to the back yard.

Kaatz and Cardenas lived at the home.

Court documents say Cardenas told someone about the buried body who then later tipped off police.

"In the backyard area, they found a concrete mass and other areas that were consistent with what could possibly contain a body," said Cpl. Destiny Silva of Austin Police.

Court documents show the concrete mass was in the shape of a body surrounded by cinderblocks. They also state a witness was told by Cardenas there were "drag marks" inside the home that had been "bleached."

"There may have been some kind of relationship between the suspect and the individual, so this appears to be an isolated incident," said Cpl. Silva.

Court documents show a family member of Kaatz told police that he was asked by Kaatz to take him to withdraw money so he could buy a car and leave town.

Police asked us not to identify the person found dead until family is notified.

Two charged after body discovered in backyard of South Austin home

Austin Police say detectives following up on a 911 call discovered a body buried in the backyard of a South Austin home. It was discovered Wednesday in the backyard of a residence in the 5800 block of Mojave Drive, southeast of the intersection of West Stassney Lane and Menchaca Road. APD says...

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[Taffy]

She's 36?? Damn. That's a hard looking 45. lol
What gets to me is why people bury the body in a tarp or use concrete. It preservers all the DNA and fingerprint evidence. Just leave it nakie outside deep in the woods or desert. The wee little forest creatures will give it a once over. Or maybe don't kill other peeps.

 

[Stebot]

Put a blonde wig on him or a beard on her - they could be twins

 

[Taffy]

Put a blonde wig on him or a beard on her - they could be twins

Omg. Yes. lol They both look stupid as f.

 

[Ramona the brave]

the concrete mass was in the shape of a body surrounded by cinderblocks.

These people were really, really bad at hiding bodies, huh.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

She's 36?? Damn. That's a hard looking 45. lol
What gets to me is why people bury the body in a tarp or use concrete. It preservers all the DNA and fingerprint evidence. Just leave it nakie outside deep in the woods or desert. The wee little forest creatures will give it a once over. Or maybe don't kill other peeps.

Thats 36 in drug years.

 

[Blizzard]

Cardenas told someone about the buried body who then later tipped off police.

Loose lips sink ships.

 

[Sejanus]

BBQ pit.
You are doing it wrong.

 

[caitierig]

Wonder if they found her eyebrows down there too

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@caitierig

I know they did not find either one of these dimwits brains down there.

 

[Mountaineer95]

Wow, she has such a bad dye job. And this is coming from someone who used waaaaay too much Sun-In in the 80s. So bad.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A San Antonio man whose body was found decomposing under a slab of concrete in a backyard in Austin has been identified.

Nicklas Kinslow, 32, was found dead on Wednesday after a cadaver dog alerted police to the odor of decomposition, police said. His body was transported to The Travis County Medical Examiner’s office.

His death is being treated as suspicious, police said, and the cause of his death is pending from the medical examiner’s office.

Police received the tip about Kinslow’s body on Aug. 17, when a woman said she had information about the suspected death of a San Antonio man.

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Nicklas Kinslow

 

[Mountaineer95]

This looks like the kind of guy who gets killed by a father who caught him in the act of molesting a child. If this pic doesn’t scream “pedo”, I don’t know what does.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Two people were sentenced Wednesday in connection to a body that was found covered in concrete and buried in the backyard of a south Austin home in August 2020.

Travis County court records showed the murder charges against 25-year-old Walker Kaatz and 38-year-old Kristie Michelle Cardenas were dismissed during plea negotiations. Instead, both Kaatz and Cardenas pled guilty to tampering/fabricating physical evidence with the intent to impair a human corpse.

Kaatz was sentenced to serve three years in state prison, and Cardenas was sentenced to five years deferred adjudication, or probation.

Two sentenced in connection to 2020 body found buried in backyard, covered in concrete

Two people were sentenced Wednesday in connection to a body that was found covered in concrete and buried in the backyard of a south Austin home in August 2020.

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[Babs]

WTF? They murdered the victim and he gets 3 years prison and she gets 5 years probation?

 

[cubby]

I guess they couldn't prove it, tho I don't know why not. Just what we know is that the body was in their backyard, with the empty concrete bags still there, they were seen dragging cinder blocks into the backyard and the female told at least 2 people about the drag marks inside the house, the male was preparing to buy a car and leave. I know it's all circumstantial but sometimes that's all it takes.