MISSING: Robert Bond
Robert Bond has been missing for more than a year. His family believes he was murdered, and they think they know who did it.
MISSING: Robert Bond
Watch closely. It’s 8:30 at night, July 2, 2024. Your next-door neighbor had asked to borrow your pickup truck.
Watch…
He’s struggling with something obviously very heavy, trying to lift it into the back of the truck.
Okay, Facebook investigators. What does that look like to you?
“It looks suspicious to me,” Cynthia Splater said.
It’s a black plastic garbage bag, and whatever is inside, it sure looked suspicious to us the first time we saw it.
“He has to swing three times and he doesn’t even make it then. It hits the tailgate as he is putting it in. So he struggles to get this trash bag in the back of the truck,” Rose Bond said.
No one would have ever bothered to check this Ring camera video if a guy hadn’t disappeared.
A man who had been living at the neighbor’s house…
It’s a Dolcefino Media Criminal Injustice investigation.
“To me, it’s possible, it could be my son’s body,” Splater said.
“Where is Robert Bond? He hasn’t been heard from since the middle of June.”
Robert Bond’s missing person case hit the local news in the summer of 2024.
But by January of this year, the media had moved on.
Robert is still missing.
“Why did you come to us?” Andrea Palacio asked.
“Because I think HPD wasn’t doing enough,” Splater said.
More than a year after he vanished, his mom came to us to investigate. She thinks he’s dead. One of Houston’s unsolved murders.
“He’s just never not talked to me or not answered my phone calls, never,” Splater said.
His mom says June 8th, 2024 was the last time she talked to him.
“He sounded funny. He sounded like he was worried about something. Something was going on,” Splater said.
For about a month he had been living here, at this townhouse on Sage Road with this guy.
A Houston lawyer named Sean Kennedy, and his wife Alle.
After several days went by, Cindy says she talked to Alle and was told Robert simply left after they argued.
“Did he say where he was going? He didn’t say anything. He just bolted and ran, she says,” Splater said.
Cindy called Houston police and reported Robert missing on June 22 of last year.
About a month later, the next-door neighbors saw the flyers of his disappearance.
“That was the first time I had learned that he was missing. I knew that he was living next door because they brought him over to introduce him to us,” Billy Hale said.
Billy and Kristen Hale were good friends with the Kennedys.
This is their daughter. She was the Kennedys’ full-time nanny.
“I met Mr. Bond in the, I saw him maybe three times and then he was just gone,” Tindal Bond said.
“I remembered that Sean had borrowed my truck,” Billy Hale said.
Sean had borrowed the truck before, but it was rare that he did it at night.
And they were curious. They had a Ring camera to investigate.
And they couldn’t believe what they saw.
“He threw in the back of my truck a contractor’s bag. But when that bag hit, it did not sound like anything other than a big bag of meat,” Billy Hale said.
Billy was so suspicious he called the missing persons line at HPD. They didn’t get a call back for weeks.
But they started looking at more videos.
Like this one of Robert a month before he went missing.
He’s the bald guy in the white shirt.
Sean’s there too, and there is some guy who looks so wasted he can’t even walk.
“What the fuck did you give him? I’ve never seen him like this.”
And when the cops finally came, they watched that ring camera video.
“They were aghast,” Billy Hale said.
“And that’s what made them say, ‘Oh, my God, this is crazy.’ It became a homicide case that day,” Kristen Hale said.
On September 5 of last year, Houston police approached the Kennedy house with a search warrant. They were met with gunfire.
Police retreated, got out the bullhorn.
“Sean Kennedy and Alle Price. This is the Houston Police Department. Do not shoot any more weapons. We are here to resolve this peacefully.”
They finally got inside.
There’s Sean and Alle cuddling outside their garage during the search.
They probably knew they were in deep shit.
Court records show the cops found Robert’s driver’s license, his credit cards, his social security card.
And they found a lot more.
Meth.
Cocaine.
Several guns.
And something else…
Documents that couldn’t belong to them. Like bank statements, credit cards, and mail that actually belonged to their neighbors.
“Then I found there’s a bunch of stuff on this. This is Billy’s insurance stuff,” Kristen Hale said.
Sean Kennedy was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance.
That charge later dropped. He’s still charged with felony engaging in organized crime for all this alleged identity theft.
His wife was initially charged with felony fraudulent use of identifying information.
Since then, felony credit card abuse and burglary of a habitation.
We never got a good explanation who was firing those shots or why there were no charges about that.
But despite finding Robert’s stuff inside, police didn’t find Robert.
The Kennedys still face no charges in his disappearance.
And they sent us a letter, after we called, about these quote ‘salacious and unfounded allegations’
‘We are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to counter the defamatory accusations against us.’
“They still haven’t proven any sort of murder, they haven’t found the corpse, they haven’t anything significant as far as I’m aware,” Dan Cogdell said.
“If I was going to leave somewhere, I would never leave my phone. My wallet, my driver’s license, and my social security card. I wouldn’t leave it with that. I wouldn’t leave it,” Tindal said.
“I think they killed him. I don’t know how they did it, and I don’t know why they did. I don’t know why,” Rose Bond said.
When Robert went missing, why didn’t Sean and Alle call the cops?
After the raid, the Kennedys were still friendly with the Hales. For a little while. But Kristen would find her father’s birth certificate and other personal documents in their house.
“I don’t know what the fuck she is doing with this but she is” Kristen Hale said.
And also this bizarre post-it note.
‘Fell 20 feet. Puts guts back in stomach. Blood on windows. No help who did this.
Handcuffs and shackles. Back broken 2 places. 6 ribs. Kidneys punctured.’
“Maybe that’s got nothing to do with anything… but what the hell is going on in that house?” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
We’ve learned some other potentially damning evidence from investigators. Sean and Alle used Robert’s phone after he disappeared.
Police say they also have an audio tape where Alle reportedly talks about a way to get off a murder charge.
“There was this one case where this dad found a yard man fucking his son and he killed him. And they didn’t even take him into custody,” Alle Kennedy in an audio.
And then listen closely to what is reportedly said to Sean Kennedy.
“That’s what you did,” Alle Kennedy in an audio.
‘That’s what you did’
And police say Sean, the lawyer, never responds.
“He is 100% capable of killing somebody. I just know it. Being around him, you just get this, like, energy of, like, darkness,” Tindal Hale said.
But we wanted to know more about that bag in the truck. It wasn’t the only thing Sean put in, but you’ve got to admit… it sure looks like a body.
“I know you’re curious. Where did the truck go with that big bag that night?” Dolcefino told the camera.
“The police asked me to bring my truck down to CSI, and they had my truck for what, four or five weeks?” Billy Hale said.
“They were waiting on the information from Toyota on the black box. Toyota had to get it to them. There’s a lot of red tape, so it took a long time,” Kristen Hale said.
The black box indicated the truck first went up to Tomball… then drove 24 miles to Porter… and then 12 miles to Splendora.
Sean returned the truck at 3:51 in the morning.
“Sorry it took us so long,” he texted. “Lot farther than we thought. We topped the tank.”
Well, that’s nice.
“I wish I would have never said, ‘Yeah, you can borrow my truck,’” Billy Hale said.
We’ve learned the cops can only pinpoint one specific address…
a visit in the middle of the night to an acquaintance, Jason Reeves… who owns 20 acres out in Liberty County.
But nearly a year after that raid… the cops have never searched the property.
“For the detectives, it’s the box they need to check off. It’s a box I need to check off, for me. It ought to be a box Jason Reeves wants checked off for himself,” Splater said.
Rose Bond says Jason Reeves now drives a truck that used to belong to Sean… this black 2022 Chevy Silverado. They think it might have been a gift for helping ditch Robert’s body.
“He’s been driving it since around the time my brother went missing or right before,” Rose Bond said.
Reeves has refused to return our text messages or our phone calls.
He’s got a long criminal record.
No trespassing signs plaster the front of his property.
“Sean and Alle, you won’t be able to hide inside of the home.”
Houston police think Robert is dead too… but they don’t think his body was in that bag… the house didn’t stink… there was no freezer.
Sean continues to claim it was just construction debris.
“Texas EquuSearch crews were also there and spent time in Kennedy’s backyard with shovels and buckets.”
Texas EquuSearch did help drag the bayou behind Sean and Alle’s house… but they didn’t find a body.
And even though Sean has a fire pit behind his house… there’s no evidence of burned human remains either.
Police now are wondering if Robert may have just taken off… living under a false identity… he has a past of identity theft.
But his family says no way.
“He would not have to steal someone’s identity, he would not have to run off, she would, whatever he needed, she would give him,” Rose Bond.
“Your wife stole everything, she absolutely did. We didn’t know that she had taken anything till the police sent pictures of it,” Kristen Hale said.
“You can see things have now gotten very ugly with these next-door neighbors on Sage Road,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“If I threw up dead body in your truck, there would be evidence of a dead body, blood, tissue, something. There’s none of that,” Sean Kennedy said.
“I know I’d like them to move. Because Sean’s scaring me now,” Kristen Hale said.
“We spent months in our house, unsettled, and I got tired of it. We had shotguns at every door, and I was always carrying a gun on me. I got tired of doing all that,” Billy Hale said.
You can imagine—this mom just wants to find her son.
“My biggest fear is not ever finding out what happened or not ever finding my son’s remains. That’s my biggest fear,” Splater said.
“We’re trying to help find Robert Bond,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“I would like for his remains to be found,” Splater said.
“So, we want you to focus on July 2nd, 2024, and maybe anything you saw. A 2021 gray Toyota Tundra driving to Tomball, Porter, and Splendora in the middle of the night. Any tips are welcome. And Robert Bond’s family want the Kennedys to come clean. They think they know a hell of a lot more,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“You can understand mom’s frustration. She doesn’t think the cops have done enough, and she doesn’t think the DA’s office is exploring more evidence against the Kennedys,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“I think it’s obvious what’s happened. He didn’t leave there. He never left there. There’s no proof he left there. Why wouldn’t you talk to the cops if you didn’t do anything wrong? But they refuse to talk,” Rose Bond said.
And this case does raise troubling questions about the way HPD handles missing persons reports.
“Did the delay on answering that original missing person’s call lose valuable evidence? Every day the trail gets colder and we are looking for answers,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“I talk to people that it’s been 15 to 20 years, they’ve never found a body, never found out what happened to their loved one. And I’m thinking that could be me, you know, very well could be,” Splater said.
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