Former NFL player who stabbed, strangled, and burned his girlfriend to death learns his fate

Kevin Ware (Montomgery County Jail); Taylor Pomaski (Texas EquuSearch).

A former NFL player has admitted to killing his girlfriend, whose remains were found months after her family reported her missing when they didn’t hear from her on Mother’s Day.

Kevin Ware, 44, was ordered to serve 30 years in prison for the grisly murder of Taylor Pomaski, 29, according to court documents out of Harris County, Texas. Pomaski’s remains weren’t found until months after she was last seen alive in April 2021; officials say she had been beaten, stabbed, strangled and burned.

In addition to admitting to the slaying, Ware also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence for his desecration of the victim’s corpse. According to court documents obtained by Houston-based NBC affiliate KPRC, the victim’s body was burned after she was killed.

As Law&Crime previously reported, Taylor Pomaski, 29, was last seen April 25, 2021, after a party. After she went missing, investigators said Ware was uncooperative in search efforts and quickly became a person of interest. In December 2021, human remains were discovered in North Harris County, and presumed to belong to Pomaski.

The deceased woman’s identity was confirmed via forensic testing in early May 2022. Under the glare of formal speculation for over a year, the defendant was indicted for Pomaski’s murder in late July 2022. Ware had actually been arrested the month before for allegedly violating bond conditions on weapon and drug charges he incurred less than a week before his then-girlfriend went missing.

Witnesses would later report that the couple had a violent altercation during the small party where Pomaski was last seen alive.

Ware admitted in court documents to killing her on or about April 28, 2021. Her family reported her missing on May 11 of that year after she uncharacteristically did not reach out on Mother’s Day, which was also her father’s birthday.

“She never missed that type of stuff,” her mother, Leslie Mandeville, told Inside Edition in a June 2021 report. “Never.”