Michael Lee Shaver, Jr.

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Michael Lee Shaver, Jr.
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Background information
Birth name:	Michael Lee Shaver, Jr.
Born:	1972 Missouri
Penalty:	pending
Killings
Number of victims:	confessed to seven; zero confirmed
Span of killings:	2001 through 2006
Country:	USA
State(s):	Missouri
Date apprehended:	2006

Michael Lee Shaver, Jr. (born 1972) is an American criminal.

During his August 19, 2006 arrest for his involvement in an unsuccessful carjacking earlier that morning, he informed deputies his knowledge of human remains which could be found on the three-acre rental property just northeast of Drexel, Missouri where he and his mother, Shirley Ann Bryson, resided. While questioned about his involvement in the attempted carjacking earlier that day, he spontaneously confesses to murdering seven Kansas City Metro Area men. Shaver explained that he would shoot and kill them so he could steal small amounts of drugs and money they had; he then dismembered, burned, crushed and scattered their bones across the backyard. Initially, the police reported finding bone fragments from two bodies. An examination from an anthropologist found pins and screws among some of the bone pieces, which he determined to be a skull, and bone pieces of an animal.

The murder charges were dropped on December 13, 2006 due to lack of evidence. He is still being charged with attempted robbery, aggravated assault, tampering and making a false report when he faces a judge in January 2008.