A man accused of killing a missing Morgantown woman threatened her near the shallow grave where he later buried her, a complaint says

MORGANTOWN, WV (WBOY) is a longtime boy a A Morgantown woman who went missing in May and was found buried in a shallow grave last month allegedly threatened to kill her before she disappeared and lied about his alibi after she disappeared.

Joseph Nevera, 51, of Morgantown, was charged with Kimberly Osborne’s murder.47, on weekends. A criminal complaint obtained by 12 News on Monday says Osborne’s body was found less than 1.5 miles from Nevera’s home.

According to the complaint, Osborne had spent the day before her disappearance with Nevera; Witnesses said the couple argued that Osborne was packing up from Nevera’s home with the intention of moving to a cabin “away from Nevera’s home.”

She was seen on surveillance video at a gas station on Fairmont Road in Morgantown on May 12 and “was never seen or heard from again,” the complaint states.

Detectives with the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office said in the complaint that “Osborne told several people about a month before her disappearance that if anything happened to her, Joe Nevera would be responsible.” She also told witnesses that Nevera “showed her an open grave in an unknown location and threatened her that if she did not change her behavior, he would end up there,” the complaint said.

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Detectives said Nevera was interviewed in May after Osborne disappeared and provided an alibi for the night she disappeared; however, that alibi “was later proven to be partially false,” the complaint states.

Nevera said that on the night of May 12, he drove Osborne in his truck to the cabin where she moved while she stayed at his house, and surveillance footage shows her truck heading to the cabin. However, the complaint states that in the video, about 20 minutes later, her truck is back on the road “with another truck following behind with no lights on.”

Detectives said that after Osborne’s remains were found in November “buried in a shallow grave hidden from the road” about 1.3 miles from Nevera’s home, “the investigation concluded that Joseph Nevera killed Kimberly Osborne.”

Nevera has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the North Central Regional Jail.

Law enforcement agencies with the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office, the Pittsburgh FBI, the West Virginia State Police, the Monongalia County Prosecutor’s Office and the Pennsylvania State Police K9 Unit, as well as Forensic Anthropology Team from Mercyhurst Universityassisted in the case during the seven-month investigation.

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