Missing Mom Found in Burn Pile, Property Owner Arrested After Allegedly Telling Co-Defendant to ‘Clean Up’: Police

Authorities in Missouri have charged two men after finding the remains of a woman who disappeared more than two months ago.

Amber Simpson, 41, was reported missing after she was last seen in Kansas City, Mo. on May 27, according to a Kansas City Missouri Police Department bulletin.

Damon A. Thomason, 54, and Felix L. Watson, 30, have been charged in connection to the recovery, according to probable cause statements obtained by PEOPLE. Neither is facing charges in connection to Simpson’s death.

After Simpson, a beloved mom and grandmother, was reported missing, police received an anonymous tip that led them to a location in Nelson, Mo. about 90 miles east of Kansas City, according to the probable cause statements.

The tipster told police Simpson had been killed and her body burned on May 28 on a property in Nelson, investigators alleged in the documents.

Police executed a search warrant on the property, which is owned by Thomason. While at the location, police allegedly found a burned fire poker and human bones that were later determined to belong to Simpson, according to the court documents reviewed by PEOPLE.

A forensic anthropologist determined the “severe degradation of the human bones were caused by one fire that continued for an extended period of time or multiple fires over an extended period of time,” the documents stated.

During an interview, Thomason allegedly told police he had seen a “big leg bone” in the burn pile and claimed Watson must have burned the body, investigators allege in his probable cause statement.

“Whatever it was, I told him to clean it up, but after two or three more days of it, f***ing stupid, I’m thinking that was that girl’s (Victim 1) body probably because after that I saw the leg bone after he reburnt (sic) everything,” he told police, according to the affidavit.

In a brief interview with police, Watson allegedly claimed the burn pile was not on the Thomason property, and therefore he did not pay attention to it.

Simpson’s grieving family is dedicated to keeping her memory alive, according to FOX 4, who spoke with her loved ones.

“She loved everybody and she made it known that anybody was welcome in her home. If somebody needed somebody, she was there,” her daughter Hayley Rhymer told the outlet.

She added that Simpson struggled with addiction, but that didn’t stop her from being present in their lives.

“I know a lot of people are just know her as that… but that’s not who she was at all. My mom was the funniest person I knew,” Rhymer said.

Another daughter said she was the one who got the call when Simpson was found and identified.

“Remembering that she’s still human and what happened to her, she didn’t deserve. Nobody deserves that, you know?” her daughter told the outlet.

Thomason and Watson have both been charged with abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence in felony prosecution, according to online court records reviewed by PEOPLE.

Attorney and plea information for the suspects were not available in their respective online dockets as of Tuesday, Aug. 4.