Shelby County Sheriff
The physique of Serenity McKinney, a 4-year-old woman who has been lacking for over a yr, was discovered Friday alongside a winding highway lined by woods in West Level, Kentucky.
Her mom, Catherine McKinney, and the mom’s boyfriend, Dakota Hill, who had been already charged with custodial interference, had been rebooked on fees of homicide and abuse of a corpse, Shelby County jail information present.
Authorities didn't say how Serenity died, however the grim discovery resolves a minimum of a part of a thriller that started on Christmas Eve 2020, the final time the little woman was seen.
Serenity’s grandparents say Catherine McKinney reduce them off within the fall they usually reported the kid lacking final month.
“That is out of her character,” step-grandmother Aundrea Wainscott informed WHAS every week and a half in the past. “She had gotten again in touch with us via messenger, just about saying they’re OK, however nonetheless wouldn’t allow us to discuss to Serenity or present us Serenity.”
Police say that once they contacted Catherine McKinney, she refused to cooperate—after which she and Hill allegedly skipped city. The couple had been subsequently arrested in Kansas and extradited to Kentucky.