Wise County man leads deputies to wife, 11-year-old daughter's bodies inside his garage
WISE COUNTY, Texas - A Wise County man has been charged with capital murder after family members said his wife and daughter were missing for several months.
On Monday, someone called the Wise County Emergency Call Center saying their sister-in-law, Kimberly Kellam, and her 11-year-old daughter had not been seen in several months, according to the sheriff's office.
He said Kellam, 42, and her husband lived off County Road 4371, near Decatur, with their three children.
Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said his office became concerned when he couldn’t find any trace of the suspect’s wife on social media, and the last photograph of the oldest daughter was back on Halloween.
"We really couldn’t find any trace on social media or any form or fashion or trace of Kimberly," Akin said.
Deputies went to the home, but nobody was there.
On Tuesday, the husband, Robert Morairity, was located in Dallas by deputies, with the help of Dallas police and the Texas Rangers.
He was with his10-year-old and 3-year-old children. Investigators believe Morairity and the two children had been living in hotels in Irving and Dallas.
Morairity, 45, first claimed he hadn't seen his wife or oldest daughter in six months. He eventually admitted that his wife and 11-year-old daughter were dead and that their remains were inside the garage at a Wise County home, investigators said.
"The investigators kept talking to him and talking to him, and eventually, he admitted that his wife and daughter were in the garage and they were deceased," Sheriff Akin said.
Morairity was taken to the location, where he showed investigators the bodies that were covered up by blankets and clothing, according to the Wise County Sheriff's Office.
"I am terribly disappointed someone didn’t call us before June 12th, when it happened probably back in November," Sheriff Akin said.
Robert Morairity (Source: Wise County Sheriff's Office)
Morairity was arrested and charged with tampering with a corpse, murder, and capital murder.
His other two children were released into CPS custody. Sheriff Akin said none of the children were enrolled in school.
Morairity is in the Wise County Jail, with his bond set at $800,000.
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The cause of death for his wife and daughter are unknown at this time.
Their bodies were sent to the Dallas Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy.
Investigators are still trying to figure out a motive in this case, friends of Kellam said there were serious concerns she may be harmed.
Sheriff Akin said he’s not aware of any domestic violence calls to the home, but family members said they feared Morairity.
"I must’ve thought about it a hundred times over knowing her all these years, but I never thought someone could be that evil," friend of Kellam, Kenya Borden, said.
Borden said she shared the same fear during her 15-year friendship with Kellam.
"She didn’t deserve what happened to her," she added.
The two worked at Cici’s pizza in Decatur before Kellam became pregnant with her third child.
"I need her kids to know that she mattered. She mattered to me," Borden said. "She was a good person."