Police in Missouri have identified the dismembered body found buried on the property of a sex abuse suspect this week as a 32-year-old Texas woman who had been missing since October 2020, with court records alleging that she was choked to death and then cut up with a chainsaw as part of a sexual fantasy.
Investigators were led on Wednesday to the remains of Kensie Aubry, from Pearland, Texas, by a teenage girl who accused the owner of the property near Grain Valley of molesting her.
The teenager told police she learned that 40-year-old Michael Hendricks had killed a woman and hidden her body. She also was shown photos of a woman’s dismembered body, the girl told investigators.
Independence police announced on Thursday that the remains were positively identified as Aubry, who was reported missing in October 2020.
They found the remains on the property in the 4000 block of South Buckner-Tarsney Road near Grain Valley.
Identified: Police in Missouri have positively identified missing Texas woman Kensie Aubry, 32, as the victim whose dismembered remains were found on Wednesday on a suspected child molester's property
Michael Hendricks, 40 (left), faces charges related to child abuse along with his girlfriend, Maggie Ybarra, 30 (right). Aubry's remains were found on Hendricks' property
The remains were found on the property in the 4000 block of South Buckner-Tarsney Road near Grain Valley amid a missing person investigation
As of Friday, Hendricks has not been charged in connection with Aubry's murder, but he has been jailed on $500,000 bond stemming from accusations of sexually abusing the girl who reported the body to the police.
Hendrick's girlfriend, 30-year-old Maggie Ybarra, faces the same charges as her boyfriend, including two counts
