A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the case of a missing Florida woman who disappeared a week ago.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a news conference Monday that Collin Knapp, 30, was arrested after tests showed blood on his clothing linked to 34-year-old Kathleen Moore.
Moore’s body has not been found and Knapp is not cooperating in that search, Nocco said. He added that Knapp has had 10 felony arrests since 2004, including for domestic violence and assault allegations.
Nocco said the couple was seen out together on Nov. 28 at bars in Largo and Indian Rocks Beach, both of which are south of Pasco County in the Tampa Bay area. They were seen arguing there and eventually wound up at Knapp’s residence.
“We have no evidence that she actually left that residence,” the sheriff said.
CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Nocco says Knapp later went to his job at Harold Seltzer’s Steakhouse in Port Richey to do inventory. Investigators would discover that Knapp brought clothes with him and tossed them into a dumpster.
Moore was last seen in the Carmel Avenue area of New Port Richey around 1 a.m. Nov. 29. Earlier that night, Moore and Knapp, her boyfriend, had been out with friends in Pinellas County, where they went to some bars in Largo and Indian Rocks Beach.
Witnesses say the two had argued while out at the bars, and they left in Knapp’s Cadillac, driving from the Tampa Bay area into Pasco County, where Knapp lived.
Around 12:30 a.m., Knapp bought cigarettes at a 7-Eleven in New Port Richey. Knapp said that Moore was in the vehicle but, Nocco said, based on surveillance footage, he is not able to confirm whether or not she was in the vehicle.
Knapp said he and Moore then went to his house on Carmel Avenue, where they got into another argument. He claimed Moore took her backpack and left his house, but Nocco said there is no evidence Moore ever left.
