Lang
12/15/23
Murder charges have been filed against two suspects accused of killing a Cedar Rapids man whose abandoned car was found in rural Johnson County.
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, on November 27th deputies located an abandoned 2021 Dodge truck near a small wooded area in the 1400 block of Hwy 6 NW north of Oxford. The Sheriff’s Office soon learned the truck was owned by 31-year-old Shawn Kiger of Cedar Rapids, who had been reported missing to the Winona, Missouri police department four days earlier. On December 14th, law enforcement located Kiger’s body in a wooded area in rural Shannon County, Missouri.
Missouri authorities say Kiger wanted to buy his wife a gun and had been made aware that 32-year-old Kyle Sebree of Winona, Missouri had been advertising firearms for sale on Snapchat. Kiger drove to Missouri, where he allegedly did meth with Sebree before Sebree drove Kiger’s truck to a wooded area, tied him up and shot him in the back of his head with the help of a man named “Alex”. A man who had been with Kiger on the trip to Missouri then drove his truck back to Iowa and ditched it north of Oxford.
Sebree and 41-year-old Heather McClendon…also of Winona, Missouri… are each charged with 1st Degree Murder. Sebree is also charged with 1st Degree Kidnapping, while McClendon faces an additional charge of Tampering with Evidence. That charge comes after McClendon allegedly took the murder weapon to Arkansas and sold it for $100.
The case remains under investigation.