Man Dead in Missouri Murder-Suicide Is Also Responsible For the Deaths of 2 Kansas City Medical Researchers

Mar. 15, 2025

Misty Brockman, Camila Behrensen, Pablo Guzmán Palma.Photo: gofundme; Stowers Institute for Medical Research (2)

Thedeaths of two research scientistswho were found killed on Oct. 1 in their Kansas City, Mo., apartment have been solved after authorities confirmed a man who perpetrated a murder-suicide on Oct. 16 was responsible for their deaths.

Kevin Ray Moore, 42, killed 40-year-oldMisty Brockman, then turned the gun on himself on Oct. 16 in a murder-suicide.

Now police say Moore is also responsible for the deaths of Camila Behrensen, 24, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Pablo Guzmán Palma, 25, of Santiago, Chile, who were found dead in their burned Kansas City, Mo., apartment on Oct. 1.

It is unclear if Moore had any prior connection to Behrensen, Guzmán Palma or Brockman.

“A Kansas City Police Department investigation has established that on or about Oct. 1, 2022, Kevin Ray Moore, dob: 5/25/1980 (now deceased), caused the deaths of Behrensen and Guzman-Palma and intentionally set their apartment on fire,” apress release from the Jackson County’s Prosecutor’s Officereads.

The release says that the Kansas City Police Department, “used phone and computer data, surveillance videos, ballistic testing as well as DNA tests to determine the cause of the deaths of Behrensen and Guzman-Palma and to determine that Moore was the suspect.”

Behrensen and Guzmán Palma were both predoctoral researchers and members of the 2020 predoctoral research class at Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, according to astatement from the institute.

On Oct. 16 — more than two weeks after the killings of Behrensen and Guzmán Palma — Moore and Brockman were found dead in a wooded part of the city from a murder-suicide.

“She was taken in a senseless act of violence that makes our hearts bleed in agony,” the fundraiser description reads.

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“She’d always have your back. Always,” Coberly told the outlet. “She was a firecracker. She was everything you wish you had in a friend.”

A spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department told PEOPLE that further information is not available at this time because of the “connection with the ongoing investigation into the murder-suicide.”

source: people.com