The Houston Police Department, which has not commented on the case for more than a week, would not confirm that he had made the confession.
A police department in Arkansas confirmed that Vence was on his way with them on Friday.
‘What happened to Maleah was an accident,’ Quanell X told The Houston Chronicle. ‘He says it was an accident. And he confessed to me where he dumped her body.
‘He was very specific with the amount of distance and time.
‘When I was able to leave and look it up on my phone, he was to the point on the distance and time.
‘He said that he pulled over in Arkansas, got out of the car, walked to the side of the road, and dumped the body off the road.’
He said he had met with the director of Equusearch, which works with the police in missing persons cases, to find her.
‘I think it’s true enough that I have an airplane lined up at 3 p.m. to fly a detective, and several officers to go up there and go ahead and start the search.’
The confession comes nearly a month after Vence reported Maleah missing on May 4.
He stumbled into a hospital with his one-year-old son claiming all three of them had been kidnapped by Hispanic assailants the day before while driving to the airport to pick up Maleah’s mother, Brittany Bowens.