The Bowling Green police chief accuses Pike County, Mo. Sheriff's Department of Corruption in death examinations – Muddy River News

Bowling Green, Mo. – Bowling Green Police Procedure Ty Bounds said on Friday that the sheriff Stephen Korte from Pike County and his department had blocked and disturbed the death of the death of a Hannibal man last year.

The car of Nathaniel Müller, 23, was found on December 22nd near Frankford and Müller was reported missing. His body was found on February 28th.

But members of his family had cleaned their concerns about the investigation and borders about a press conference outside of Pike County's court building on Friday to support the family claims.

According to Bounds, he examined a robbery in Bowling Green, in which three suspects were involved, and believed that Müller's disappearance was associated with the crime. Then he dropped a bomb at the press conference and began to give details about what his department believed that they had happened.

“We were able to uncover a close close relationship between a pregnant and a high-ranking member of the sheriff department,” said Bounds. “The sheriff intervened in an examination in which numerous bowling green officers, sheriff's deputies and Missouri Highway Patrolmen were at risk.”

Limits also claimed that Korte and others knew the place of Müller's body for weeks before it was officially recovered.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has now taken over the investigation, and Chris Lozano, the lawyer for borders, said that they could not publish any further details.

“The law is the law. That's it, ”said Bounds. “If it is broken, whether you are a police officer or not, the treatment should not be something special.”

At the beginning of this month, Lozano wrote a Whistleblower letter to the Pike County Commission, the City of Bowling Green and the Sheriff Department of the Pike County.

Korte denied any misconduct in a comment that KMOV-TV spent on St. Louis. He said he was on the investigation of his department and worked closely with Moller's family during the trial.

“If you do a professional matter, let the facts compete and stand for yourself,” Korte told KMOV.