‘Oh yeah, I definitely did that’: Boyfriend ‘sarcastically’ confesses to killing girlfriend, leaving her body in refrigerator hidden behind sheetrock for over a year, police say

Chad Stevens appears inset against an image of the house where he stored a woman

Inset: Chad Stevens (Collin County Jail). Background: The home where the remains of Heather Schwab were found in McKinney, Tex. (YouTube/WFAA).

A North Texas man will spend the next several decades behind bars for hiding his dead girlfriend’s body inside a refrigerator for over a year.

Chad Stevens, 43, accepted a plea deal on one count of tampering with a corpse, the Collin County District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday. He was quickly sentenced to 30 years in state prison.

In November 2023, the defendant was arrested by the McKinney Police Department after the “small statured human body” of Heather Schwab, 35, was found inside of the poorly-secreted away appliance.

“During the execution of the Search Warrant, a refrigerator which was wrapped in copious amounts of plastic wrap was located in the kitchen,” a probable cause affidavit reads. “The sole entry to the kitchen had been suspiciously closed and concealed from the remainder of the residence with a piece of sheet rock.”

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