FILICIDE: Kentucky: Mollie Shouse left child in car, now charged with murder

May 24, 2011  

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Police have arrested 28-year-old Mollie Shouse and charged her with murder after they say she left her 2-year-old son, Kenton Brown, in her car for several hours while the temperature outside climbed to the mid 80′s. On Saturday, Kenton Brown’s grandparents found him unresponsive inside his mother’s Toyota Corolla parked right outside Shouse’s apartment.
Neighbors say they were alerted something was wrong when they heard screams and found an older woman rolling around in the grass. That’s when they say Shouse came running out of her apartment in her underwear. One neighbor tried to revive the boy, but it was too late. The coroner said his cause of death was consistent with environmental hyperthermia.
Shouse pleaded not guilty to the murder charges Monday morning, but she’s also facing charges of second-degree possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana after Xanax and marijuana were found inside her home. I’m guessing she was under the influence of one or both of these drugs when she left Kenton in the car. Shouse has been charged with driving under the influence twice before as well as having past charges of tampering with evidence and possession of marijuana.
Kenton’s father also happens to be Kenneth Brown, the man serving time in prison for the 2010 murder of LaShawn “Sugar Shizz” Talbert, who inspired a Louisville dance craze called “The Shizz.” Brown’s attorney is trying to get Brown out of prison long enough to attend his son’s funeral.
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FILICIDE: Alabama: Leavell-Keaton

By BRIAN SKOLOFF

12/7/2010 MOBILE, Ala.

A father whose missing children are believed to be dead told investigators he buried one of them in Mississippi and the other in Alabama but says it was their stepmother who killed them, police said.

But she is pointing the finger at him.

AP

This Dec. 1, 2010 photo released by the Louisville Metropolitan Dept. of Corrections shows Heather Leavell Kenton. Police are still searching for two missing Alabama children: five-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Jonathan DeBlase. Their father, John Deblase, was arrested in Florida and charged with child abuse and two counts of abuse of a corpse. The children's step-mother, Heather Keaton, was arrested h in Louisville last week. (AP Photo/Louisville Metropolitan Dept. of Corrections)

Mobile police say John Deblase, 27, has admitted burying his two children — 5-year-old Natalie and 3-year-old Chase — in March and June.

DeBlase was being held on $206,000 bond. He is charged with child abuse and corpse abuse. Meanwhile, the children's stepmother, Heather Leavell-Keaton, is jailed in Louisville, Ky. on child abuse charges. She will soon be extradited back to Alabama. The couple had been together since 2008 but were not legally married.

The children were last seen this summer, Mobile Officer Chris Levy said.

DeBlase has been trying to help investigators find the bodies, which led to searches over the weekend in rural areas of Alabama and Mississippi, but nothing was found, Levy said.

"He's placing the blame on Heather, and Heather's placing the blame on him," he said. "Both of them are ultimately responsible for the deaths."Levy said DeBlase has had difficulty remembering the exact locations because the children were buried at two different times.

He said the father told investigators he buried the boy's body around the end of March in Mississippi, and later disposed of his daughter's body near the end of June in Alabama.

It remains unclear whether the children were killed at the same time.

"We're really trying to figure that out right now," Levy said. "Without the bodies, it's difficult to know."

The children's biological mother said she is still holding out hope they will be found alive.

"Until the police come to me and say they have their bodies, I won't believe it," Corrine Heathcock, who is divorced from DeBlase, told The Mississippi Press. "If they do tell me that, then I want to bury them together. They were always inseparable. I couldn't separate them in death."

DeBlase was arrested Friday in the Florida Panhandle, and does not have an attorney. It was not immediately clear if Leavell-Keaton had a lawyer in Kentucky.

Heathcock said she made the best possible choice for her children when she and DeBlase divorced.

"I wasn't living in a place that was suitable for children," she said in The Mississippi Press article. "He was the best thing for them. He loved them. I would have never let him take them if I thought otherwise."

Heathcock said things were fine for a while, but then DeBlase stopped letting her see the children. She said he'd make up excuses for why she couldn't see them and eventually stopped answering his phone.

Heathcock said she last saw her children on Nov. 18, 2009.

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INFANT DEATH: Kentucky: Brooks Ecton

A detective with the Winchester Police Department was the one and only witness to testify against all 3 family members charged in connection with the death of a infant.

He was able to share his theories on how and why the child died.Around 4:30 in afternoon on October 11, Winchester Police say 21-year-old Brooks Ecton went out for the night, leaving her 10-month-old daughter, Addysen Brooks Mayes, in the care of the child's grandparents Cheryl Kirkwood-Black and David Black. The mom came home around 11:30.

Det. Tom Bell says, "She posted on Facebook at 12:30 a.m. that the child was snoring extremely loud, louder than her fiancé."

The next morning police say the mother found her child dead in the play pen. During an autopsy the detective says he found an explanation for the loud shores.

Det. Bell says, "Dr. Rolf tells us that is the death rattle."

The child, police say, died from a methadone overdose. Nearly enough to kill an adult says, Bell. He also testified the grandparents are methadone users.

"They've said they've never lost a pill, they're both junkies.", said Bell.

During a search of the house, police say they found a box of chocolates, instead of candy there were baggies, straws, and two bottles of childs aspirin and in those bottles, liquid methadone.

But the search was done a month after the child died, giving question to if the mother knew she was leaving her child in the hands of drug abusers, her lawyer didn't think so.

He said, "If there was proof, she didn't know it." And the judge agreed with that argument, saying, "She took no steps to seek medical help."

The mother and the grandparents cases were passed to the grand jury. The grand parents are being held in jail, while the mother of the infant is out on bond.

Police said in october when the child first died, there were no signs of foul play.

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