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He confessed. http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/03/police-man-posing-as-slain-oak-cliff-homeowner-confessed-to-killing-him.html/ A man accused of selling a Kessler Stevens house by posing as its dead owner has confessed to killing the man, police said Monday. Related Impostor sold slain...

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/03/u-s-marshals-arrest-man-suspected-of-posing-as-dead-homeowner.html/ A man accused of impersonating a north Oak Cliff homeowner found buried in the yard has been arrested in California. Christopher Brian Colbert, 43, is awaiting extradition after U.S...

from an older article on the Shumway case http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/body-found-in-yard-owner-is-missing-and-yet-his-house-is-sold-with-a-forged-deed-hmmm.html/ On July 10, someone went to City Hall and paid off a $56,250 lien that the City of Dallas had placed on...

Still more aspects of the story was it unravels. They mention he dropped the price to 130,000 from 145,000 when he called back after 3 days. They said the closing transferred $110,000 into the Shumway account which Colbert accessed the funds. Still dont know who/why a lien on the property of...

The body in the backyard was officialy just identified as Ron Shumway and arrest warrant issued for the tenant/friend Christian Colbert...... http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/impersonator-sold-dead-mans-home-for-130000-dallas-police-say.html/ Dallas police are looking for a man...

Neighbors had mentioned a bad smell, a stench in the area. This lends itself to the corpse being more recent.

Yes I know you don't have to pay off the lien of course it can be done at at closing by the title company, but somebody did go the trouble of paying off that $56,000 lien themselves before closing. Why do you think they did that? For what reason would they have payed off that lien though...

Either the perp posed as Ron Shumway at the real estate closing or just simply paid someone to pose as Ron to facilitate the transaction. Someone who pulled it off had to have some money already to pay off the $56,000 existing property lien right before closing so when they funded the closing...