Mississippi — An inmate’s family could not shed light Tuesday on why their family member has ties to a place where skeletal remains turned up.
“I want nothing to do with him,” said Jennifer Gabriel, referring to her brother, Josef Schnabl. He is a felon.
Gabriel is focused on moving on from the mess she said her brother put her in.
“He’s the reason my truck is out there, because he stole my truck, and he still has my gun out there somewhere,” she said.
WREG spoke with Gabriel briefly on her doorstep in Marshall County Tuesday.
Thanks to a tip from an inmate, investigators dug up what they believe to be human remains on Stanton Road in Southaven Monday.
It happened in the backyard of a home that is also associated with Schnabl.
WREG asked Gabriel if she believes her brother is capable of somehow being involved.
“For killing someone? He’s already been in prison for killing someone,” she said.
Schnabl has a criminal history. He has been locked up in several states.
He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for an incident in 2001. In 2011, he reportedly called Southaven Police and threatened to kill officers.
Schnabl was also the target of a search last month, wanted for carjacking and aggravated robbery.
At that time, Schnabl’s mother appeared on WREG, begging him to turn himself in.
Police found him hiding in a dumpster at a Memphis gas station about a week later and took him to Shelby County jail.
Not wanting her brother to be a part of her life anymore, Gabriel does not care to know if police learned about the remains in Southaven from him. It is something police will not confirm.
“The only reason he’s probably doing this is so he don’t have any more charges on him, because if he says something about a crime, he gets lesser charges,” Gabriel said.
Monday, investigators said the same family has owned the home on Stanton about 40 years. The people living there are not suspects at this time.
Police will not comment on anything to do with Schnabl or why he is linked to the home.
