MARIETTA, Ga. (Court TV) — A detective said a woman found dismembered at a Georgia apartment complex had been shot in the head and stabbed with scissors and other sharp objects before the defendant allegedly disposed of her body.
Kingston Bradley appears in court on Oct. 23, 2026. (Pool/Court TV)
Kingston Bradley, 18, appeared in court on Friday, and a judge found probable cause for a charge of malice murder against him in the death of Shanteria Mosley, 25.
Detective Nathaniel Wachowiak detailed evidence at the hearing that led to the defendant’s arrest after the victim’s family reported her missing on Sept. 23, 2026. Mosley’s family, concerned when they hadn’t heard from her for hours, tracked her phone to an apartment complex where they found her car, but no sign of the victim.
Police knocked on doors but couldn’t find anyone who had seen Mosley before they left the property. An hour later, Mosley’s family called 911 again — and this time, they were reporting that they had found her torso.
Officers who returned to the scene “were directed by the family to a plastic bin that was on a dirt walkway,” Wachowiak said. “When the officers went up to the bin, they looked inside and noticed a dismembered torso inside the bin.” Mosley’s family told the officers that they had seen Bradley walking with the bin, and when he saw them, he dropped it and went back into his apartment.
Bradley refused to talk to the police, but his father, who arrived while officers were detaining him, agreed to sit down for an interview. Bradley’s father told officers that his son, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, had not been taking his prescribed medications recently and was also known to abuse over-the-counter medications.
The defendant’s father allegedly told the police that he returned to the home after calling his son and hearing police were there. “[Bradley’s father] asked Kingston, ‘What did you do?’ to which Kingston replied, ‘It was self-defense,'” Wachowiak testified. “[Bradley’s father] continued to ask Kingston, ‘What did you do?’ And then Kingston made another statement of, ‘It’s under the dresser.'”
A search of the apartment where both Kingston and his father lived revealed a 9 mm pistol under the dresser. “We also found several empty cleaning bottles, bleach, pet spray. There was a mop bucket with some water in the bucket and there was a mop in the bucket,” Wachowiak said. “There was a carpet cleaner machine in the apartment as well. The apartment smelled of bleach pretty heavily. There was also several areas of blood throughout pretty much every room of the apartment except the master bedroom, which was [his father’s] room. We also found a power saw and a bloody hand saw.”
Police went outside to search the victim’s vehicle, which family members had identified for them. “We found Shanteria’s head and arms and legs in the trunk of the vehicle,” Wachowiak said. “The head and the arms were wrapped together in black trash bags, similar to the trash bags that we had found in the apartment. And the legs were wrapped in their own black trash bags as well.” Investigators searching the property also found black trash bags in the bed of Bradley’s father’s truck containing bloody clothing, absorbent pet training pads and empty cleaning bottles with blood staining alongside “some bits of human flesh,” Wachowiak testified.
Wachowiak said the defendant and victim had no connection until the morning of Sept. 23, when Kingston Bradley called a number Mosley had used in an escort ad. Mosley also worked for DoorDash, her family said, but Wachowiak said that a DoorDash order Kingston Bradley placed for cleaning supplies was made at 11:20 a.m., after investigators believe Mosley was already dead.
The detective said that investigators found one of the case’s most significant pieces of evidence after serving a search warrant on the defendant’s phone: Investigators found a “picture of Shanteria decapitated in Kingston’s bedroom.”
Under cross-examination, Wachowiak said that the medical examiner’s report was not yet complete, but that an autopsy revealed that Mosley was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. “There were some other stab wounds on various parts of the body,” Wachowiak said, that may have been inflicted with scissors, shears and a pocket knife found in the apartment.
Kingston Bradley’s defense attorney asked Judge Brendan Murphy to set a bond for his client, saying his only criminal history was nonviolent misdemeanors. Prosecutors disagreed. “He was out on bond at the time that he committed these offenses, Your Honor,” prosecutors said Friday. “This case is so, so, heinous. There is no connection whatsoever between Kingston Bradley and Shanteria other than he found her on an escort page that morning. For someone who is this young to murder someone, shoot them in the side of the head and then dismember their body and take the time to order all these cleaning products on DoorDash and clean his house and then separate her body parts and put them in various locations; that is someone who can never be trusted out on bond.”
Kingston Bradley’s previous charges were for simple battery and terroristic threats, prosecutors said.
Murphy agreed with prosecutors. “Based on everything the Court has seen and heard today, Mr. Bradley is not a candidate for bond at this time,” he said.
Prosecutors have 90 days to secure an indictment in the case.
