KANSAS CITY – A man who died in a murder-suicide in Clay County has been identified as the suspect in the murders of two South American researchers earlier this month, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor.
Camila Behrensen, 24, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Pablo Guzman Palma, 25, from Santiago, Chile, died in an apartment near 41st and Oak streets in Kansas City on Oct. 1.
Both Behrensen and Guzman-Palma were pre-doctoral graduate students at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City.
The prosecutor's office said Thursday that Kansas City police determined that on or about Oct. 1, the suspect, Kevin Ray Moore, 42, caused the deaths of Behrensen and Guzman-Palma and intentionally set their apartment on fire.
Authorities said Moore died on Oct. 16, in a murder-suicide in Clay County, in the woods near Worlds of Fun.
The prosecutor's office said the KCPD crime lab used phone and computer data, surveillance videos, ballistic testing, as well as DNA tests to determine how Behrensen and Guzman-Palma died, and to determine that Moore was the suspect.