For Immediate Release
January 9, 2025
A Kansas City man and woman have been charged with felonies in connection with a missing woman who was found dead in South Kansas City in 2023, Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced today.
Jacob Block faces one count of Accessory Abandonment of a Corpse and one count of Accessory Tampering with Physical Evidence. Eunice Carlo-Martinez faces the same charges.
According to court records, on May 23, 2022, Ring camera footage showed the victim entering the defendant's grey BMW from her residence in Clay County, and the vehicle leaving the area. Additional camera footage shows the defendant and victim entering a residence in Jackson County, but the victim is never seen exiting.
Over the next few days, the defendant and codefendant are captured on video surveillance exiting and entering the residence several times. Camera footage shows the codefendant moving mop buckets and deactivating and then reactivating one of the cameras.
Two days after the victim is last seen entering the residence, camera footage shows the defendant and the codefendant loading a U-Haul with a large black box-like object and then leaving the residence.
On April 1, 2023, skeletal remains were found in a broken box in a ditch off a roadway. The box looked like the same size and color the defendant was seen loading into the U-Haul truck.
Detectives conducted a search of the defendant and codefendant's cell phones and found photos and videos in the residence of the wooden box, which appeared to be the same one found at the crime scene. A lab report later determined the box in the photos and videos and the one at the crime scene were the same.
Detectives also conducted searches of the defendant and codefendant's Facebook accounts, which revealed messages indicating they gave the victim Fentanyl, and she suffered an overdose.
According to the Medical Examiner's Office, due to the level of decomposition, a cause of death could not be determined. However, the victim's brain tissue did contain fentanyl metabolites.
Prosecutors requested a $150,000 cash-only bond for both Block and Carlo-Martinez.