Workers comp claim says client at Second Chance Homes confessed to murder

ABC 17 News Investigates has confirmed a former employee of Second Chance Homes has filed a workers compensation claim.

The claim was filed against Second Chance Homes and Finck & Associates, who eventually took over ownership of Second Chance Homes.

In the documents, the former employee claims, “During the course and scope of my employment, I became a witness in a murder investigation involving one of the consumers whom I supervised and was asked to spend time alone with another client who had confessed to the murder.”

The type of injury the former employee endured has been redacted from the documents.

There is no confirmation that this claim is connected to the Carl DeBrodie case. DeBrodie was reported missing from Second Chance Homes in April 2017, and was later found encased in concrete in a Fulton storage unit.

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The claim lists the injury date as Feb. 28, 2017, more than a month and a half after DeBrodie was reported missing.

Callaway County prosecutor Chris Wilson said in February that his office received the complete DeBrodie death investigation on January 11. Federal authorities had also reviewed the case. So far, no one has been criminally charged for anything arising from the investigation.

ABC 17 News sent Wilson and after-hours request for comment on the workers compensation claim.

An attorney for Second Chance Homes denied the allegations made in the claim.

Daniel Schmitz, attorney for Finck & Associates, said the injury the former employee claimed was not a result of the claimed accident. Schmitz did not return an after-hours request for comment.

Mary Martin, a former guardian of DeBrodie, said the workers compensation claim was the first revelation to her that a client of Second Chance Homes had confessed to a murder. Martin believes that, if the claim is true and a person with disabilities committed the murder, employees of Second Chance knew about what happened.

“It’s very hard to understand Carl being murdered in the first place, let alone people knowing and nothing has been done,” Martin said.

Finck & Associates took over the assisted living facility in April 2017. Fulton police said then that the company was cooperating fully with the investigation, and had nothing to do with DeBrodie’s death.

The workers compensation claim, thoigh, said FInck and Second CHance “acted in ways that resulted in injury to the claimant.”

Christine Kiefer, attorney for the former employee, did not reuturn ABC 17 News’ requests for comment.

(Editor’s note: This story has been updated from its original version, titled “Former employee of Second Chance Homes files workers compensation claim”.)