Killa City: Alfred Caldwell charged with killing Crystal Caldwell

Jackson County prosecutors charged Alfred L. Caldwell today with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of his wife, Crystal Caldwell. Kansas City police found 43-year-old Crystal Caldwell’s body in her home at 1118 Pacific yesterday afternoon after receiving a welfare check request from Caldwell’s daughter, who hadn’t heard from her mother since Tuesday afternoon. Caldwell’s daughter told police that her stepfather, 47-year-old Alfred Caldwell, also wasn’t around. A detective called Crystal Caldwell’s work supervisor, who said Caldwell’s husband had called her in sick the last two days. The supervisor told police that Caldwell had confided in her that she and her husband were having marital problems. Crystal Caldwell referred to her husband as “volatile” and said she had told him that “either she or him was going to have to move out.”

After obtaining a search warrant, police searched Crystal Caldwell’s home and found her “bloody and mutilated body” in a bedroom. While they were searching the home, Caldwell’s supervisor called police and said that a man had called her and said Caldwell was still sick. Police traced the call to Truman Medical Center, where they arrested Alfred Caldwell.

An employee at Truman Medical Center gave detectives a slip of paper with a phone number that rang Crystal Caldwell’s work number. Phone records at Truman Medical Center revealed that Alfred Caldwell had placed a call at 7:01 p.m. April 9, at the same time Crystal Caldwell’s work had received calls from Truman Medical Center.

Alfred Caldwell refused to speak with detectives.