When police entered the Pleasanton apartment Joseph Roberts and his late fiancée Rachel “Imani” Buckner shared, there were strong indicators the dismemberment happened inside, including…
PLEASANTON — Joseph Roberts didn’t know it, but before authorities found the dismembered body of his fiancée on the Alameda Shoreline, police had spent the past week surveilling him as he played golf, smoked cigarettes with friends and ate Mexican food.
There was an open bottle of Drano resting on the edge of a bathtub. The carpets had been removed just days earlier, and FBI cadaver dogs alerted to the scent of human decomposition in the bathroom, bedroom and laundry area, authorities said. The only real clues to Doe’s identity were unique body tattoos, including one of an Aztec Jaguar warrior and another that referenced Jan. 28, 2017 in Roman numerals, a date important to one of her relatives, authorities said. Detectives tried to follow those leads, to no avail.
A GoFundMe page for Buckner says that she recently received her Juris Doctorate from GGU, after graduating from Howard University.