Dunnellon man charged with murder after confessing to killing father
A missing-person call led deputies to a Dunnellon backyard, where they found disturbed dirt, a decomposition odor and a rolled carpet. The son now faces murder after investigators said he confessed.
A family member’s missing-person report on Andres Bahamon-Prada turned into a homicide case after Marion County detectives said his son admitted killing him and burying him behind a Dunnellon home. Andres Bahamon, 25, now faces second-degree murder and evidence-tampering charges, both listed with no bond.
The investigation began on May 16, 2026, after a family member told deputies Bahamon-Prada had not been seen since May 7, 2026. Detectives obtained a search warrant for 2180 NW 225th Ave. in Dunnellon and carried it out on May 18, 2026. During that search, investigators said they found freshly disturbed dirt, a decomposition odor and a rolled carpet suspected to contain human remains.
Those remains were later identified as Bahamon-Prada, 43, and local reporting said the killing happened at the home the father and son shared in Dunnellon. Bahamon was already in custody on an evidence-tampering charge when he allegedly told detectives he had asked God a million times to let him kill his father and claimed his father was trying to connect with satanic people. Sheriff’s office records later showed the murder case added to the tampering charge, with both counts carrying no bond.
The scene has made this a case built on two tracks at once: the confession investigators say they heard, and the physical evidence they pulled from the backyard. The rolled carpet, the disturbed soil and the odor of decomposition are now the grim anchors of a file that started with a family member asking where Bahamon-Prada had gone and quickly became a search for a body.
The Dunnellon District covers 213.39 square miles and had a population of 23,947 residents in 2010, a wide stretch of Marion County where deputies had to move from a missing-person complaint to a buried-body search in just two days. What began as a disappearance on May 7 ended with a warrant, a backyard dig and a homicide charge, and the case now turns on how the forensic findings match the story investigators say Andres Bahamon told them.
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