A Texas man has been arrested amid suspicions that he was behind the murder of his “missing” girlfriend, who may have been buried in Oklahoma.
Christopher Charles Sanders was arrested on March 7 in connection to the suspected murder of missing person Molly Richards, according to the arrest affidavit viewed by the Denton Record-Chronicle.
Richards, 31, was reported missing on January 5. Her father told authorities that the last time he saw her was on November 18, 2025. He said he received text messages from her phone the following week that concerned him, per the affidavit.
The father contacted the Corinth Police Department to report her missing, and he also mentioned text messages he exchanged with Richards’ boyfriend, Sanders.
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He showed officers text messages that came from Richards’ phone on November 27, 2025, which shared her plans to travel to South Dakota with Sanders, 53.
Another message was sent to her father from her phone on December 1, 2025, which stated she was going to a mental health facility. Sanders then allegedly sent her father a text two days later that said Richards was not at a mental health facility. Sanders allegedly added that he told Richards to call her father.
The father messaged Sanders multiple times in December 2025 and asked for information about Richards’ whereabouts, though Sanders did not respond to some of the messages. In a December 16, 2025, message, he allegedly told Richards’ father that she was “offered a few jobs and was reviewing Mental health places.”
The father claimed to police that Sanders was physically abusive toward Richards during their relationship, which lined up with Little Elm police report officers’ claims that they saw Richards with possible strangulation marks on her body before she disappeared.
Law enforcement agencies across state lines have spent the last three months looking for digital evidence that may lead to Richards’ whereabouts as her body has not yet been recovered. Meanwhile, authorities have also monitored Sanders, searched for eyewitnesses and tracked Richards’ vehicle’s movements throughout the investigation.
As the investigation continued, police started to believe that Richards was not missing but was instead murdered. Authorities also grew to suspect that Sanders was responsible for Richards’ death, per the affidavit.
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Sanders has been accused of murdering Richards on or around November 25, 2025, when the couple traveled to South Dakota together. The suspect allegedly said Richards stayed in South Dakota when he returned to Texas, per the affidavit.
Detectives searched Sanders and Richards’ separate homes in Little Elm and Denton, where they found blood residue and receipts for saws and 5-gallon buckets.
Authorities were not able to find the tools at the homes, though security footage from a local Lowe’s captured Sanders purchasing the items listed on the receipt.
The affidavit states that detectives suspect Sanders killed Richards and left her body in Marietta, Oklahoma, where he owns a property.
Sanders was served with an arrest warrant on March 16 when Little Elm detectives traveled to Marietta to find him. He is currently in custody at the Denton County Jail without bail.
It is not currently clear if he has entered a plea or retained legal counsel. The Little Elm Police Department did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment.
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