Man charged with murder after his grandfather is found dead rolled into a rug and chilling clue emerges
Samuel Coleman
Published Sep 10, 2026
POLICE have charged a 22-year-old man with killing his grandfather after they discovered his body rolled into a rug under the back deck of his home.
Kace Pleasant of Irontown, Ohio, was arrested after initially fleeing police as they attempted to perform a welfare check on the house of his grandfather, Harold Pleasant, 73.
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The investigation began on Wednesday after a sanitation crew called police to report suspicious activity.
Workers told Irontown police officers that a man had tried to throw away several "suspicious" bags in their garbage truck, The Ironton Tribune reported.
When officers followed up, they found that the bags contained bloody clothing, and immediately called detectives onto the scene.
Detectives soon determined which nearby home the bags and the male who put them there came from.
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As police attempted to perform a welfare check on the house's residents, they said that Kace Pleasant emerged from inside, got in a car, and fled the scene.
After they obtained a warrant to search the home, they discovered what appeared to be a dead body underneath the back deck.
Police then called the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations to perform a forensic analysis of the scene and recover the body.
When agents from the BCI arrived, they used crowbars and saws to open up the deck.
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After they recovered the body, which they said had been wrapped in a rug, they identified the deceased man as Harold Pleasant, Kace Pleasant's grandfather.
Kace Pleasant was later arrested on fleeing and eluding charges after an altercation with a woman in a nearby town.
Kace Pleasant was booked into the Lawrence County Jail on charges of murder, failure to comply with a police officer, and tampering with evidence, the Tribune reported.
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He’s being held on a $1 million bond.
His next hearing is scheduled for November 3.
