COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of a 23-year-old woman told police he fired in self-defense. Whether the legal system agrees could depend on whether and how David K. Heyde, 68, invokes the state’s self-defense laws. Heyde, 68, is accused of killing Bailey Scott on July 6. He was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was accused of leading law enforcement on a boat chase Saturday in Morgan County was charged with a felony and multiple misdemeanors. Loren Peters, of Sunrise Beach, was charged with aggravated fleeing and four misdemeanors, including boating while intoxicated, not displaying navigation lights, not registering a boat and recklessly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with first-degree domestic assault on Monday after he allegedly assaulted a woman on June 30. Christopher Rowden, 38, is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. An initial court appearance was held on Monday. Court documents say that he assaulted the victim between 8:30-9:30 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man who pleaded guilty last month to sodomy has now been charged with enticing a child. Billy Vanbibber, 40, was charged on Monday with enticing a child younger than 15 years old. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He pleaded guilty on June
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was charged with statutory rape earlier this year after moving into a home with a teenager and her father is now charged with having child pornography. Travis Kalchbrenner, 32, was charged on Saturday with possessing child porn and is being held at the Cole County Jail. He was charged
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, woman was charged with several child sex crimes after she allegedly sodomized and molested a child multiple times since 2021. Kaila Browning was charged with five counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12 years old and five counts of first-degree child molestation. A warrant was issued
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 22-year-old man was charged after a deadly crash in Mexico on Saturday morning. Prosecutors have charged Joshua Frye, 22, of Mexico with DWI resulting in the death of two or more. Court documents state police officers responded to the crash on Saturday at 6:39 a.m. in the 4800 block of South
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Moberly community is remembering the life of Bailey Scott through a number of memorial events on Friday. Scott died Sunday night after being shot in the 900 block of East Logan Street in Moberly. “She was always the sweetest and she always complimented somebody, like anything about them. She was so fulfilling.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel has filed a lawsuit to keep his driver’s license. Pinkel’s lawyer – Bogdan Susan — on Wednesday filed a petition in Camden County asking the court to not suspend the former coach’s license after he allegedly refused to take a breathalyzer test A Missouri State Highway
Continue Reading David Kip Heyde has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Bailey Scott after allegedly shooting her on his front porch.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged with murder in the 2024 death of an Osage Beach police officer is facing more charges. Christopher Wehmeyer, of Camdenton, is now charged with aggravated fleeing, second-degree felony murder drug possession, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action in the death of Officer Phylicia Carson. A motion for
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was booked into the Randolph County Jail on Thursday for second-degree murder. David K. Heyde, 68, was awaiting arraignment and was jailed on no bond. Information about the accusations against him was not immediately available. Heyde lives in the area where a 23-year-old woman, Bailey Scott, was shot dead
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former MLB player from Columbia was found guilty on a pair of charges on Thursday. A jury found Blake Tekotte, 38, guilty of second-degree domestic assault and kidnapping in a case that began in 2024. He was previously charged in the case with first-degree domestic assault and second-degree kidnapping. Tekotte is
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Montgomery County woman was charged with 23 felonies after she allegedly sexually assaulted a child for several years. Joann Finch, of Montgomery City, was charged on Thursday with four counts of first-degree child molestation, four counts of second-degree child molestation, three counts of statutory sodomy of a child younger than 14
Continue Reading MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Monday, friends of Bailey Scott first saw a Facebook post from Moberly police about a shooting in the 900 block of East Logan Street. Later that day, they learned the 23-year-old was the victim of the deadly shooting. “I never thought in a million years it would ever be someone so
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Maries County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a social media post on Wednesday that it was missing more than $5,000 in cash. “In late June, I was informed by staff that over $5,000 in cash was missing. Upon learning this, I immediately made a formal request to the Missouri State Highway Patrol
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police responded to a a report of shots fired late Tuesday night in the 200 block of Apple Tree Court in Columbia. Management of the property told ABC 17 News this was a drive-by shooting. Dispatch logs show Columbia police were called to the neighborhood around 11:45 p.m. for a shots-fired call.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Rothville, Missouri, man was charged on Wednesday with two counts of fourth-degree child molestation. A warrant was issued for Ronald Winn — born in 1963 — and a $20,000 bond was set. A court date has not been scheduled. Court documents say that Winn sexually assaulted the victim on June 30
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Syracuse, Missouri, woman was charged on Wednesday after she allegedly stabbed a woman 18 times on Tuesday and punched another. Grace Turley, 23, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, third-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. She is being held at the Morgan County Jail without bond. A court date has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Holts Summit police said Wednesday that they partnered with Homeland Security agents to make four immigration arrests this week. The arrests happened Tuesday, according to a Holts Summit Police Department news release. The operation was in cooperation with the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security. The four people were arrested by
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