Murder Charge After Bodies Found in Buried Car

A Waterloo man has been charged with murder and several other charges after the bodies of his girlfriend and her stepfather were found in a car buried underground, according to KWWL. 25 year old Mitchell Mincks has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, concealment of a dead body and tampering with evidence in killings of 28 year old Elissa Landry and 45 year old David Batten, both of which were from Arizona. Their bodies were found in Landry’s Subaru in an Evansdale neighborhood. Mincks has also been charged with burglary for taking Batten’s firearms, identity theft, theft of transportation and credit card theft. He is being held in a correctional facility in Arizona.