Admin and Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office

BREAKING — The Jackson County Prosecutor’s office announced in a press release on April 22, a Kansas City man has been sentenced in connection with a woman’s fatal strangulation in 2023. 

Darion Hall pled guilty to one count of 2nd Degree Murder and a judge sentenced him to 23 years in prison. 

Kansas City police were dispatched to the 4300 block of East Seventh Street on the evening of March 14, 2023, and found a female victim in the yard. The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide and the cause of death as strangulation. 

The victim was identified as Elizabeth Stivers, 31, resident of the property.

The day of the homicide, the defendant was observed driving a reported stolen auto. It was found abandoned near Seventh Street and Norton Avenue, about two minutes from the victim’s residence. Surveillance video also captured the defendant at Walgreen’s drug store on Independence Avenue where he was involved in an attempted strong-arm robbery earlier that day. 

A witness saw a male, later identified as the defendant, near the victim after she was strangled. She described the defendant’s clothing, which matched the same clothing the defendant wore during the attempted robbery.

Detectives submitted to the crime lab the defendant’s clothing for testing. The lab reported the DNA collected from the defendant’s hoodie matched DNA from the victim. 

Trial Team Leader Hallie Schuman and Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Mitchell Widener prosecuted the case on behalf of the state of Missouri. 

To read Northeast News coverage of this case, visit https://northeastnews.net/pages/murder-charges-filed-in-elizabeth-stivers-homicide-case/