Balbirnie lures teenage Khighla Parks to her death on Facebook

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2nd degree murder, Amy Hartley, Anthony Balbirnie, charges, Facebook, Khighla Parks, Larry Warner, Probable Cause, sex

Anthony Balbirnie

Benton County, Mo. — Anthony J. Balbirnie, 48, used Facebook to lure 15-year-old Khighla Parks to a party of sex, porn, alcohol and drugs that ended in the teenager’s death.
This was contained in the previously sealed probable cause statement released Tuesday that backed up a second degree murder charge against Balbirnie.
Investigators obtained six Facebook messages between Balbirnie and Parks with the final one from Khighla on Sept. 19 saying “U can I don’t give good directions tho.”
According to witnesses, Balbirnie and Parks ended up at his sometime girlfriend’s house in Buffalo, Dallas County, Mo., on the evening of Sept. 20. 2012. His girlfriend, Amy Hartley, admitted to participating in a threesome sexual act with Balbirnie and Parks and said later that night she discovered Balbirnie with Parks, who was suffering seizures and pointing to her throat. She said Parks later died, and the two of them wrapped and tied up the teen’s body, loaded her in the trunk of Hartley’s car and after trying to dump her in the Pomme de Terre River near Pleasant Hope they went to Truman Lake in Warsaw and threw her off a bridge weighed down with a post driver and a piece of railroad tract.

Balbirnie’s Facebook photo

Hartley and Larry Warner both were involved in the party. Warner transported Balbirnie and Parks to Hartley’s house.
Investigators have developed evidence based on Facebook, cell phone records and physical evidence fibers from Khighla’s green sundress on the pink comforter at Hartley’s residence, her hair, and Park’s DNA and Hartley’s DNA on the pink comforter from Hartley’s bedroom.
Witnessess have also placed Balbirnie and Parks together in September 2012, and Warner admitted to picking the couple up at a Springfield, Mo., residence the night of Sept. 20 and taking them to Hartley’s house in Buffalo.
Warner said that drugs were being used and that Parks was seen drinking alcohol but not using drugs.
Balbirnie has been charged with second degree murder, statutory rape, child molestation, child endangerment and tampering with evidence and corpse abandonment.
Hartley was charged with statutory sodomy, child endangerment, keeping a public nuisance, tampering with evidence and corpse abandonment.
Warner was only charged with 2nd degree murder and 1st degree endangering the welfare of a child.
Balbirnie was paroled from prison on drug related charges just a month before Khighla was killed.
A motion hearing for Hartley is scheduled for Dec. 3 in Benton County. Warner’s preliminary arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 12 in Dallas County. No hearings have yet been set for Balbirnie.
To view the Probable Clause document, click HERE. Warning, the document contains some graphic descriptions which may be considered offensive.
To view the Felony Complaint document for Balbirnie, click HERE.