Police: 4 arrested in connection with Pflugerville missing persons, double homicide case

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Pflugerville Police Department said four people have been arrested in connection with two men who were found dead four years ago.

39-year-old Jerod Crespin and 18-year-old Elijah Stark, both from Pflugerville, were initially reported missing before being found dead in 2021, police said in a news release Thursday.

Crespin was found in Tennessee and Stark was found in Williamson County, according to an arrest affidavit.

It took “years of research and interviews” by detectives to connect four people connected with the victims.

Police identified the following four people with the cases:

• 39-year-old Phillip Jones, who was arrested on two charges of tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse
• 39-year-old Rico Huey, who was arrested on a charge of tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse
• 32-year-old Michael Leon Randle, who was arrested on a charge of tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse
• 28-year-old Jacob Stilwell, who was arrested on a charge of tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse

“These arrests were made possible through collaborative efforts with various agencies to help bring the families of the victims a step closer to justice,” police said in the release.