MISSOURI CITY, Texas – The person of interest in the disappearance of Karen Miles, a Missouri City mother who’s been missing since Aug. 21, is also tied to two other stolen vehicles whose drivers have never been found, according to a search warrant obtained Wednesday.
Davante Clark is currently in the Brazoria County Jail and named as a person of interest in Miles’ case after Pearland police tracked stolen license plates on Miles’ car, a 2019 gray Ford Explorer using license plate readers. The plates on Miles’ car were registered to a 1995 Lincoln Town Car in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, records show.
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On August 25, police pulled over the Ford in a H-E-B parking lot at a Pearland business center, where they found Clark in the driver’s seat.
Miles was nowhere to be found.
Clark was arrested for “wrong, fictitious license plate and unlawful carrying weapon - while engaged in criminal activity,” according to the search warrant. At the time of his arrest, Pearland police did not know Miles was missing.
She was reported missing by her out-of-state son on Aug. 28.
On Aug. 31, investigators spoke with Clark when he said he did not know anything about Miles and denied knowing he was driving a vehicle that belonged to her, according to records. He stated that he rented the Ford Explorer for $500 from a man named “Shorty” on Aug. 22 at 10 a.m. in north Houston.
When investigators contacted said person named “Shorty,” he stated that he has not spoken to Clark in three years after a dispute. He also told police that he was not in the business of renting vehicles to anyone.
According to the court documents, the last known location of Miles was when she reported for work as a FEMA employee on Aug. 21 and clocked in at 5:45 a.m. and left at 6:45 p.m. Her last Facebook post was at 10:30 p.m.
The following morning Miles never showed up.
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Earlier this week, Missouri City police said data and investigative work led them to search an area near Maczali Drive and Blue Ridge Road in Missouri City in connection to Miles’ case. There, skeletal remains were found in a deeply-wooded area. The remains have been sent to the Fort Bend County Medical Examiner’s Office for cause of death and identity.
Person of interest tied to similar cases
Clark is also a person of interest in a pair of stolen vehicle cases in which the victims were never located, according to the search warrant.
Texas EquuSearch contacted Missouri City detectives about the Harris County Sheriff’s Office investigations on Sept. 4 during the investigation of Miles’ disappearance.
The two HCSO cases are dated Oct. 24, 2023, and Oct. 26, 2023, records show.
The family of Destin Henderson, who has been missing since Oct. 24, 2023, has long had their suspicions about Clark, they told only KPRC 2 on Wednesday evening.
“When my brother disappeared, he disappeared. (Clark) was nowhere to be found,” Henderson’s sister Destiny McCullough said.
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Law enforcement officials have not connected Clark to Henderson’s disappearance, but according to Henderson’s family, the two men were getting to know each other leading up to the disappearance.
They met while jogging, family said, initially with some intention that Clark would be Henderson’s personal trainer. They said Clark also wanted Henderson to get on a watermelon diet to become fit.
“They weren’t a couple, they were getting to know each other. Like I say, they were associates for about three weeks,” Henderson’s mother Lawana Shaw said.
But family members described the relationship as becoming complicated between the two men.
On one occasion, they said Clark got mad at Henderson for leaving in the morning without letting him say good morning or cook breakfast. The family claimed Clark started stealing money through Cash App from Henderson and said Clark would sometimes show up at Henderson’s apartment uninvited, so Henderson would try to hide inside and pretend he wasn’t home.
When Henderson disappeared, so did his vehicle, but his family said it was found months later in March.
“My brother was an excellent brother, an excellent son, an excellent father,” his sister Le Annessa Scipio said. “We’ve been reliving October the 23rd, 2023 for ten months and so we have a little closure, but ... not enough because we still don’t have a body.”
EquuSearch declined to comment on the cases. KPRC 2 does not have any information on the other stolen vehicle case involving a missing person investigators said is connected to Clark from Oct. 26, 2023.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirmed it’s investigating to establish any links.