CASS COUNTY, Mo -On Friday three men were charged in a Belton man’s murder. Court documents describe that two of the men believed the victim had spoiled their plan to rob a drug house in Belton by tipping off the house’s residents, and one of them shot the victim in the back of the head in a cornfield near State Line Road in rural Cass County.
The victim has been identified as Miles Cashell, 19, who was reported missing on September 23 according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.
Lieutenant J. Kevin Tieman of the Cass County Sheriff’s office confirmed that the three arrested and charged are Keegan Curtis of Raymore, Kenny Bowman of Belton and Edmond Lynch of Belton. All will be held on a $1 million bond and have varying charges filed against them.
Curtis has been charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, kidnapping, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.
Bowman has been charged with being an accessory to first-degree murder, armed criminal action, being an accessory to kidnapping, being an accessory to tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.
Lynch has been charged with being an accessory to second-degree murder or felony murder, being an accessory to kidnapping, being an accessory to tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.
After the interviews, authorities with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office and the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office went to the crime scene where Bowman led them and found a body they believe belongs to Cashell. Court documents say he was naked and covered under brush, and had a hole in the back of his skull consistent with a gunshot wound.
Of the three, only Lynch has a listed court date that is set for October 16. Online court records don’t list attorneys for any of the men.
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