Man who rapped about killing his girlfriend in viral video charged with her murder

Amanda Kathleen Custer is still missing after her July disappearance

A man who rapped about killing his girlfriend in a disturbing video posted online has been accused of killing her, police said.

Robert Camou, a 27-year-old California resident, was indicted on murder charges on Wednesday after his 31-year-old girlfriend Amanda Kathleen Custer went missing in July, according to reports.

He was previously charged with domestic violence, burglary, battery and assault. Ms Custer reportedly sought a restraining order against him after she said he beat and strangled her in April.

Mr Camou was out on bail when the alleged murder occurred. Witnesses reportedly said they had seen him hauling a limp body into the back seat of a car outside his home in Monrovia, near Los Angeles, last month.

The suspect was later seen in a video at a bar hours before police confronted him about the disappearance of his girlfriend, rapping about killing her and hiding the body.

“I kill my b**** and bury that b**** in the f***ing dirt,” he said in the video. “The cops trying to look for me and I’m f***ing trying to shut my mouth.”

Michael Moore, the bar patron who shot the video, told local news outlets the crowd was shocked when Mr Camou said the incendiary raps.

“At first it was like, did he say that? He said that. And he said it with such force,” he said. “I think that everyone in the bar that heard him kinda stopped. Time just stopped. And there were some hardcore rappers up in there, and they stopped.”

Police said they had been trying to locate Mr Camou ever since a witness reported seeing him put Ms Custer’s body in the back of a Prius outside of his house. Blood was found at the scene.

Ms Custer has not been found since her disappearance. Shortly after the video, Mr Camou was arrested on a warrant tied to the domestic violence case.

In a statement, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it was aware of “a video being circulated that depicts suspect Camou rapping” but had not authenticated it. The department asked anyone present during the recording to come forward.

“We want to make sure it’s unedited,” Deputy Trina Schrader, a sheriff’s spokeswoman, told the Los Angeles Times. “If it’s edited, then in court people can poke holes in it.”

Public records show Mr Camou lives with his parents, and Ms Custer’s home is less than a block away, the newspaper reported.

The two had been dating for at least two years, sheriff’s Lieutenant Scott Hoglund said.

Court and police records show that they had a relationship full of domestic violence allegations and that Ms Custer sought a restraining order against Camou in February, the newspaper reported.

She said he harassed her with text messages and phone calls and in January climbed a fence and tried to get into her bedroom.

Additional reporting by AP