6-Year-Old Daughter Found Buried in Backyard; Parents Find Themselves In Trouble
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🗓️ 11 February 2025
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Summary
How does a child just vanish for nearly four years without anyone noticing? That’s the chilling question at the heart of this tragic case out of Rose Hill, Kansas. Authorities recently uncovered the remains of six-year-old Kennedy Schroer, who had been buried in a makeshift grave behind her adoptive parents’ home since 2020. The revelation came only after police responded to a mental health call at the residence—because nothing says “routine welfare check” like discovering a child’s body in the backyard.
Crystina and Joseph Schroer, the adoptive parents, continued to collect Medicaid payments for Kennedy long after her alleged murder, raising unsettling questions about how a system designed to protect children allowed her to disappear without a trace. How did no one—caseworkers, doctors, teachers, or even neighbors—notice that a child was missing? And more disturbingly, how many more kids have slipped through the cracks, lost in a system that prioritizes paperwork over people?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, a story out of Kansas in Rose Hill, Kansas. |
| 0:12.0 | Authorities have arrested a local couple that have been accused of killing their six-year-old adopted daughter and concealing her body in a makeshift |
| 0:23.1 | grave behind their home for nearly four years. Police say the remains of the child identified |
| 0:30.1 | as Kennedy Schroeder were discovered in September during a search prompted by a mental health |
| 0:36.0 | call to the residents. According to Rose Hill Police Chief |
| 0:39.0 | Tyler Parlor, officials visited the home on North Meeker Court around 7.30 p.m. on September 10th, |
| 0:46.3 | in response to a mental health crisis, while there they received information suggesting a body |
| 0:51.1 | might be buried in the backyard, you know, like you normally do on a call to a home. |
| 0:57.2 | There might be a body in the backyard. |
| 1:00.1 | Investigators returned early the next day, clearing dense vegetation and using cadaver dogs to comb the property. |
| 1:07.9 | Hours into the forensic dig, they uncovered a shallow grave, roughly two feet |
| 1:12.2 | deep containing the young girl's remains in a trash bag. DNA test confirmed the body belonged |
| 1:18.6 | to Kennedy, originally born Natalie Garcia, on July 14th of 2014. After her birth parents relinquished |
| 1:26.6 | their rights, she was adopted by the Shrohers in November of 2018 and renamed Kennedy. |
| 1:35.9 | Police believe she was suffocated in late 2020. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Both adoptive |
| 1:43.2 | parents, 50-year-old Christina Elizabeth Schroher and |
| 1:47.3 | 53-year-old Joseph Shane Schroer, are now in the Butler County Jail without bond. |
| 1:53.5 | Christina faces charges of murder, four counts of child abuse with forfeiture, or with torture, |
| 1:58.3 | rather, four counts of forgery, aggravated kidnapping, felony |
| 2:01.8 | theft, Medicaid fraud, and desecration of a corpse. |
| 2:04.8 | Joseph is charged with child abuse with torture, felony theft, Medicaid fraud, interference |
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