For Immediate Release
March 19, 2024

A Jackson County judge sentenced today a Kansas City, Kan., man to 30 years in prison for the fatal beating of a 24-year-old Kansas City woman and the assault of a 4-year-old, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced today.

Jose E. Escalante-Corchado, dob: 3/21/1992, pleaded guilty to Murder in the 2nd Degree and Assault 1st Degree.

The defendant pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to 30 years on each conviction. The sentences were set to run concurrently.

According to court records, Kansas City police were dispatched on Jan. 15, 2022 to  the 7300 block of Wabash to check the welfare of a resident. Officers discovered a 24-year-old victim deceased in a bathtub and a 4-year-old who suffered severe trauma to her head.  A previous 911 call had come that day from the victim's phone number. Blood was found throughout the residence's main floor. Police found the print of a specific type of boot and later found a matching pair of boots that were identified as belonging to the defendant. Detectives found that the defendant's ruck was in the area of the crime scene on the day of the crime. Surveillance video also showed a male in the area of the victim's residence running south from the residence, then getting into a white truck that soon pulls into a gas station. Surveillance video revealed the male to appear to be a Hispanic male with black hair. The defendant told detectives that was him at the gas. He acknowledged he knew the victim and her daughter.

Chief Trial Assistant Kristiane Bryant prosecuted the case on behalf of the state of Missouri.

For more information, contact:

 Michael Mansur
Director of Communication
Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office
Jean Peters Baker, Prosecutor
Work : (816) 881-3812
Mobile : (816) 674-3954
www.jacksoncounyprosecutor.com
mmansur@jacksongov.org