Fentanyl Death: Man Gets 6 Years for Hiding Corpse

0:00Jacob Locke just got hit with a six-year prison sentence for his role in covering up the death of Abby Schaeffer, a Kansas City woman who vanished, back in 2022. The 28-year-old from Olave pleaded guilty to accessory abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence in Jackson County Court. This comes on top of his 20-year federal bid for slinging fentanyl, and the judge made sure these terms run together. Earlier this week, footage from a ring camera caught Schaeffer hopping into a car from her clay county spot on May 23rd, her last known, citing, cops tracked her phone to a Kansas City house where Block and his co-defendant Eunice Carlo Martinez were seen with her going in, but she never came. Out. Days later, those two rode a big box-like thing out on a dolly to a U-Haul truck. Schaeffer's family has been hurting since skeletal remains popped up in a ditch along Blue River Road in April 2023, ID'd by dental. Bucks as hers, and matching that suspicious box.

1:00Messages on Block and Carlo Martinez' Facebook showed they hooked her up a fentanyl that led to her overdose, turning a knight into tragedy amid. Their own addiction struggles. Block's lawyer paints him as a friend to Schaeffer, who owned his mistakes but swears he didn't hand her the fatal dose. Meanwhile, he's locked up in a Georgia federal pen as part of a bigger bust, nailing 13 folks for pushing thousands of lethal fentanyl hits. Helping him as a real community threat. Carlo Martinez still has an active warrant with her case-hanging, but Block's double-sentencing spotlights have the fentanyl wave keeps claiming lives, and dragging accomplices down, leaving us to wonder how many more boxes hide these stories before they surface. That's your Kansas News Today update, AI-powered, and always on.