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A Ninth Ward man was arrested Tuesday (Jan. 11) after New Orleans police executing a search warrant found human remains on his Pauline Street property, authorities said.
The NOPD has not accused 34-year-old Benjamin Beale of committing a homicide, but they arrested him and booked him with obstruction of justice in a death investigation after he refused to answer questions about the dead body during an interview at police headquarters.
Beale, who also goes by the name Kelley Kirkpatrick, made his first appearance in Orleans Parish Magistrate Court on Wednesday. A magistrate judge set his bond at $400,000.
However, a Slidell man told WVUE-Fox 8 that his estranged wife, 36-year-old Julia Dardar, was reported missing from the Pauline Street address after not being seen since the week before Christmas. The man said Julia Dardar was last known to be staying with Beale, and that Beale had been using her car left at his residence.
According to her estranged husband, Julia Dardar was “suffering from addiction and mental health issues,” and that Beale told police he had not seen her since mid-December, but failed to report it.
“We hope to find her alive,” the man said, “but it’s not looking good at the moment.”
Patricia Dardar, Julia’s mother-in-law, said in a social media post that family members were on Beale’s property Jan. 5 to pick up Julia’s belongings.
Human remains found on Ninth Ward man’s property; arrest made
Police were investigating the disappearance of Julia Dardar when they found a dismembered body in a freezer Tuesday in New Orleans.
Authorities stopped short of saying the headless torso belonged to Dardar, or asserting that she was murdered. They said the condition of the body prevents immediate identification or the determination of a cause of death.
How did Dardar and Beale know each other?
A Facebook post under the Kirkpatrick name suggested Beale and Dardar met sometime before June 2021. The post showed Beale thanking Dardar for helping with an elderly neighbor’s move.
More recently, Dardar and Beale - using the Kirkpatrick name - each started ***pages soliciting donations to support their return from a West Coast trip they had taken on a bus Beale inherited from a friend. Beale’s post lamented that the bus, which had made annual voyages to Burning Man for almost 20 years, had been vandalized and had otherwise deteriorated.
Dardar’s post described how she had helped repair the bus, and now she was “stuck on the West Coast with no funds to get home” to New Orleans, where she hoped to see her daughter receive a diploma.
“I am 1,800 miles from home” in California, she wrote on the *** page. “I need fuel, food and shelter. Although I have been sleeping in my car and hitting up food banks in order to get by, my back is screwed up from failed epidurals so it’s not the most comfortable place to sleep.”
How long had she lived in the house with Beale?
Neighbors said Beale had lived in the house for about a year. Dardar arrived more recently and lived in the school bus near the rear of the property, straddling an empty lot, said Tracy Pearson, who lives next door.
Who is Julia Dardar, the missing New Orleans woman at the center of dismemberment case?
The NOPD has not accused 34-year-old Benjamin Beale of committing a homicide, but they arrested him and booked him with obstruction of justice in a death investigation after he refused to answer questions about the dead body during an interview at police headquarters.
Beale, who also goes by the name Kelley Kirkpatrick, made his first appearance in Orleans Parish Magistrate Court on Wednesday. A magistrate judge set his bond at $400,000.
- $100,000 for obstruction of justice
- $25,000 for distribution of methamphetamine
- $150,000 for illegally carrying a weapon with a controlled deadly substance
- $25,000 for possession with intent to distribute marijuana
- $100,000 for creating or operating a clandestine drug lab
However, a Slidell man told WVUE-Fox 8 that his estranged wife, 36-year-old Julia Dardar, was reported missing from the Pauline Street address after not being seen since the week before Christmas. The man said Julia Dardar was last known to be staying with Beale, and that Beale had been using her car left at his residence.
According to her estranged husband, Julia Dardar was “suffering from addiction and mental health issues,” and that Beale told police he had not seen her since mid-December, but failed to report it.
“We hope to find her alive,” the man said, “but it’s not looking good at the moment.”
Patricia Dardar, Julia’s mother-in-law, said in a social media post that family members were on Beale’s property Jan. 5 to pick up Julia’s belongings.
Human remains found on Ninth Ward man’s property; arrest made
Police were investigating the disappearance of Julia Dardar when they found a dismembered body in a freezer Tuesday in New Orleans.
Authorities stopped short of saying the headless torso belonged to Dardar, or asserting that she was murdered. They said the condition of the body prevents immediate identification or the determination of a cause of death.
How did Dardar and Beale know each other?
A Facebook post under the Kirkpatrick name suggested Beale and Dardar met sometime before June 2021. The post showed Beale thanking Dardar for helping with an elderly neighbor’s move.
More recently, Dardar and Beale - using the Kirkpatrick name - each started ***pages soliciting donations to support their return from a West Coast trip they had taken on a bus Beale inherited from a friend. Beale’s post lamented that the bus, which had made annual voyages to Burning Man for almost 20 years, had been vandalized and had otherwise deteriorated.
Dardar’s post described how she had helped repair the bus, and now she was “stuck on the West Coast with no funds to get home” to New Orleans, where she hoped to see her daughter receive a diploma.
“I am 1,800 miles from home” in California, she wrote on the *** page. “I need fuel, food and shelter. Although I have been sleeping in my car and hitting up food banks in order to get by, my back is screwed up from failed epidurals so it’s not the most comfortable place to sleep.”
How long had she lived in the house with Beale?
Neighbors said Beale had lived in the house for about a year. Dardar arrived more recently and lived in the school bus near the rear of the property, straddling an empty lot, said Tracy Pearson, who lives next door.
Who is Julia Dardar, the missing New Orleans woman at the center of dismemberment case?
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