HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A suspect in the disappearance of a Baytown woman, who went missing in 2024, has officially been indicted in connection to the case.
Quan Flowers was indicted by a Harris County grand jury Tuesday on an aggravated kidnapping charge in connection to the disappearance of Kalie Goodwin.
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According to court documents, Flowers knowingly abducted Goodwin and threatened to use deadly force, namely a firearm, during the abduction.
Flowers was already in jail on an unrelated murder charge connected to the death of Megan Rouse, 24. Rouse’s body was found off a desolate road in Southwest Houston in May 2024.
A search warrant shows Flowers took Goodwin to his home after picking her up from an apartment complex on April 21, 2024—the last day she was seen.
On April 22, 2024, records show Goodwin’s mother received a disturbing phone call from a man demanding $600. The search warrant indicates she heard her daughter’s voice in the background saying, “Momma, my face is deformed.” A witness told police the call came from a home in Fort Bend County.
Flowers allegedly accused Goodwin of stealing money. Court records also show a witness saw him hit Goodwin in the face several times with a handgun.
Police later found Goodwin’s suitcase with her ID inside the Fort Bend County home.
Witnesses told police that Goodwin later appeared at a different Houston home severely beaten. An anonymous informant told police they were told Goodwin was killed, dismembered, and her body burned in the backyard of Flowers’ home. Flowers is accused of using a metal barrel with holes to burn the body, according to the warrant.
Neighbors reported seeing a fire in the backyard and described the smell as the worst they had ever experienced.
In January 2026, a tip led investigators to a home in Southwest Houston where a woman named Ella Richardson-Ward’s parents once lived. Warrants were served at two properties that appeared abandoned.
“At this time, investigators did not locate any obvious human remains during the execution of the search warrants,” a Baytown Police Department spokesperson wrote to KPRC 2 at the time. “Items were collected for laboratory analysis as part of standard investigative procedures. This case remains under investigation, and any confirmed information will be released when appropriate.”