Adoptive parents arrested for murder, abuse of children by the remnants of the girl found in Rose Hill Backyard

Wichita, Kan. (Kwch)-Two people from Rose Hill are in prison, looking at more accusations against them about the death of a six-year-old girl, whose remains were found in September in the yard of a Hill Hill House.

The information from the Rose Hill Police Department shows that Crystina Elizabeth Schroer, aged 50, is reserved in prison under charges that include 1st degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, four charges of children (torture), theft of crimes , four accusations of false, medication fraud, medication fraud and desecration of a corpse.

Joseph Shane Schroer, 53, is reserved on four accusations of abuse of children (torture), responsibility for the offenses of another, interference with law enforcement, theft of crime and Medicaid fraud.

Investigators believe that the girl, known as Kennedy Jean Schroer, died in November 2020, when she was six. Her body was discovered following an incident with an adult at the home of her adoptive parents, Crystar and Joe Schroer, who took Kennedy’s custody in 2018.

Before her adoption, the girl’s name was Natalie Garcia.

Rose Hill police offered the next account of the events that led to a bleak discovery in Schroer’s yard.

Around 7:30 pm, September 10, an appeal to emergency communications in Butler county caused an investigation that lasted a few months. During the initial contact, the police said, the officers discovered the possibility that human Remans may be buried in the courtyard of the house in block 1400 in North Meeker Court.

At the beginning of September 11, PD Rose Hill officers provided a property search mandate and with the help of the Sheriff’s office in Butler County, they started a search.

“The land was surpassed in the search area, so that the bodies bought by the emergency leadership of Sedgwick County were carried out, without not being the positive clues that I brought in a brush pig and I shot down the vegetation.” , Rose Hill police said in a press release. “Another implementation of the canine has been completed with interest that was shown in different areas of the yard, still without any positive indication.”

A medical -legal dig started in one of the locations of interest and hours later, said the police, the remains of a child were found in a garbage bag about 23 centimeters deep.

On September 27, DNA testing confirmed the identity of remains like those of Kennedy Schroer (adopted name)/Natalie Garcia (birth name).

“As the investigation began, six detectives with the Sheriff’s office in Butler County attended the DIG, neighborhood, initial interviews and organizing information while coming. The Andover Police Department have also assisted with initial interviews of people with knowledge about this house but does not live in the immediate area, ”the police said. “As we have progressed, other agencies were brought to help, such as the Butler County Prosecutor’s Office, the Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI, Wichita Satellite Office), FBI behavioral analysis unit (BAU, Quantico), Internal Income Service (IRS), the division of the fraud of the Attorney General of Kansas, the Investigation Division of the Department for Children and Families (DCF), the unity of children operated and missing (EMCU) and civil experts in the fields of trauma and abuse. On November 20, 2024, the staff with the Criminal Science Center in Sedgwick county ended the postmortem report. “

This report found that the cause of the girl’s death was probably suffocating and that her way of death was homicide, said Rose Hill police. In his news press release, the department has reached the challenges with the case, especially since it refers to the moment from the initial discovery to arrests.

“Sometimes, investigations are complex and requires patience, especially in the light of the severity of the suspected crimes. I shared in this sense of emergency. We know that there was a strong desire in our community for answers, but the specific needs of our investigation do not allow us to offer them in detail before now, ”explained Rose Hill police in the Department’s news statement, announcing the arrests. It is not a continuous risk for public safety during the investigation and to make arrests only after the investigation was concluded was the necessary course of action to ensure the best possible result. Over 2,000 hours in this investigation. Natalie has always been in the spotlight of this investigation and we believe that we can now tell her story exactly. ”