Sentenced: Missing Pregnant Woman From Texas Found Dead In Louisiana

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A deceased female located in Vinton, Louisiana, has been identified as Kayla Rice, a pregnant Beaumont woman last seen in November 2020.

According to Beaumont police, Rice’s family reported the 33-year-old expecting mother as a missing person in December after attempts to reach her unsuccessfully. At the time, police recovered Rice’s “altered” vehicle but found no sign of Rice with her property.

Pregnant Beaumont woman found dead in LA

A deceased female located in Vinton, Louisiana, has been identified as Kayla Rice, a pregnant Beaumont woman last seen in November 2020.

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Rice’s body was found Thursday in a shallow grave near Vinton, Louisiana, in Calcasieu Parish, about 40 miles from her home in Beaumont.

An autopsy will determine the cause of death.

Police said they found Rice’s vehicle “immediately” after the report that she was missing but it had been “physically altered.” Investigators have not described how the vehicle was altered.

At the time, detectives said they had “interviewed several known associates” but were unable to locate the missing woman.

Missing pregnant woman from Texas found dead in Louisiana

Skeletal remains found Thursday in Louisiana belong to a pregnant Texas woman not seen since the end of November, Beaumont Police said Friday. Kayla Nicole Rice, 33, was reported missing in December by out of state relatives, who said she was six months pregnant at the time. Rice’s body was...

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[Sejanus]

Scrutinize the sperminator.

 

[Symmachus]

Situations like this are always awful. Anyone who kills a pregnant woman are the worst types of human beings, even when compared to other murderers.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A jury in Judge Raquel West's court took only 15 minutes to convict a man of capital murder for killing his 6-month pregnant girlfriend in Beaumont and burying her body in a shallow grave in Vinton, Louisiana.

Judge West sentenced Jonathan Paul Menard, 38, to life in prison without parole. Prosecutors weren't seeking the death penalty.

He killed Kayla Nicole Rice, 33, she had not been seen nor heard from since the end of November 2020. Her family reported her missing in December. Rice's body was found buried in a Vinton, Louisiana grave in February 2021.

Life without parole for man who killed pregnant girlfriend and buried body

A jury in Judge Raquel West's court took only 15 minutes to convict a man of capital murder for killing his pregnant girlfriend in Beaumont and burying her body

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