August 24th 2023.
Two years after Colin Kerdachi, 78, was reported missing, his landlord Pamela Ann Merritt, 43, was arrested. According to the Houston Police Department, several people who knew Kerdachi said they hadn't seen him since a deadly freeze that caused a widespread power outage.
One tenant reported finding a strange woman in his unit who refused to leave. He said the woman, Merritt, claimed to have killed Kerdachi and was then taken to a psychiatric hospital. Merritt also allegedly told investigators that Kerdachi had gone to Africa and the remains found in the home were of a dead dog.
In October 2021, another tenant reported that Merritt and her boyfriend Michael Brown were painting the house when she discovered a bloody knife in a mailbox and blood stains on a mattress in the third-floor bathroom. The tenant said Merritt claimed Kerdachi had fallen on a sharp object and later died at a hospital.
The same tenant called the police in December 2021 after discovering skeletal remains in the backyard. Police found the remains in an advanced stage of decomposition. An autopsy at the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences revealed that the remains belonged to Kerrachi.
Merritt has been charged with murder and her bond is set at $500,000. Brown has been charged with tampering with evidence. Both were arrested without incident on Friday and booked into the Harris County jail.
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