KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting is filing an open murder charge against Carlos Watts Jr. for the death of his 35-year-old girlfriend Heather Kelley of Portage.
She has not been seen since December 10, 2022 and police have not found any evidence that she is still alive.
Watts was at a halfway house in Kalamazoo on federal parole for a 2010 cocaine conspiracy and murder for hire plot when she died.
His tether had been turned off for several hours the night she disappeared, and he removed it and escaped from the halfway house the day after she vanished.
Watts will be sentenced tomorrow for that escape.
Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller says his department has given the prosecutor’s office plenty of information on the suspected murder of Kelley, a mom to eight.
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