{"id":173634,"date":"2026-02-21T00:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173634\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:45:28","slug":"houston-attorney-back-in-jail-as-police-investigate-possible-murder-of-man-who-went-missing-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173634\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston attorney back in jail as police investigate possible murder of man who went missing in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A Houston attorney is back behind bars as police continue investigating the disappearance \u2014 and possible murder \u2014 of a man who has been missing for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Sean Kennedy, a Houston lawyer, was arrested this week on a stalking charge involving his neighbor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">At the same time, Houston police are still looking into his potential involvement in the case of Robert Bond, a 40-year-old man who vanished in June of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Kennedy has not been charged in connection with Bond\u2019s disappearance, but court records outline allegations that tie him to a possible murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">OUR FIRST REPORT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/19\/police-execute-another-search-warrant-in-case-of-houston-man-missing-for-three-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police execute another search warrant in case of Houston man missing for three months<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Missing man lived with attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Bond\u2019s family says that at the time he disappeared, he was living with Kennedy and Kennedy\u2019s wife at their home on Sage Road near The Galleria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KPRC 2\u2019s chopper previously flew over that house as Houston police served a search warrant in Sept. 2024 in the effort to find Bond. During that search, Kennedy was arrested on unrelated drug charges. He later bonded out of jail.<\/p>\n<p>Search warrant location and Robert Bond (Houston Police Department and Texas Center for the Missing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Bond has not been seen since June 2024. His mother, Cindy Splater, says the uncertainty is agonizing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThe hardest part about it is missing him and, you know, missing his visits and his phone calls and emails and voice messages,\u201d Splater said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not knowing what happened and where he is. You know, I mean, obviously by now it\u2019s been coming up on two years. I know he\u2019s gone &#8230; and I\u2019m pretty fairly sure what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/06\/search-warrant-executed-in-houstons-greater-uptown-area-connected-to-man-missing-for-nearly-3-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Search warrant executed in Houston\u2019s Greater Uptown area connected to man missing for nearly 3 months<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New stalking charge and bond revoked<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More recently, Kennedy\u2019s neighbor told police he installed a surveillance camera pointed directly into her bedroom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to court documents, Kennedy is accused of watching her, taking photos of her, yelling at her and even interrupting her utility service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to court records, the victim showed investigators surveillance footage that reportedly showed Kennedy installing the camera on Jan. 20, 2026. The camera also contained microphones and had night-vision capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showing the camera being installed (KPRC 2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston police arrested Kennedy on a stalking charge tied to those allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Because he was already out on bond from the earlier drug case, in which conditions require defendants not to commit new crimes, Kennedy is now being held in jail without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For Bond\u2019s mother, that development brings at least some measure of relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cTheir behavior is beyond bizarre and anybody who knows them knows that,\u201d Splater said, referring to Kennedy and his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Alle Price was arrested during the initial search for Bond as well. She was charged with possession or use of fraudulent identifying information after investigators found her with more than 50 items of identifying information from multiple complainants, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Her cases remain pending.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation remains open<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston police told KPRC 2 News on Friday the investigation into Robert Bond\u2019s disappearance remains active. Bond has still not been found, and no one has been charged in connection with his case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KPRC 2 reached out to Kennedy\u2019s defense team regarding the new stalking charge but his attorney declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston attorney is back behind bars as police continue investigating the disappearance \u2014 and possible murder \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,56,58,57,100,66,46781,636,223,60524,70249,31685],"class_list":{"0":"post-173634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-investigation","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-missing-man","15":"tag-murder","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-robert-bond","18":"tag-search-warrant","19":"tag-stalking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}