Caden McWilliams.Photo: Facebook
The father of a 7-year-old boywhose body was found encased in concretelast year has been charged in his death.
Pankey is also facing charges of child abuse resulting in death and tampering with a dead body. The chargescome five months after Caden’s mother,Elisha Pankey, 43, was charged with child abuse resulting in death and abuse of a corpse.
“What began as a domestic violence call to the Aurora Police Department rapidly evolved into a homicide investigation,” District Attorney Beth McCann said in the press release, calling Caden’s death a “truly horrific crime.”
Leland Parker.Colorado District Attorney’s Office
Through their investigation, police were led to a local storage unit where they found a large block of concrete in a dog carrier. The following day, the medical examiner removed remains from the concrete and identified them as belonging to Caden.
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While the exact time and cause of death remains unknown, his death was ruled a homicide.
It remains unclear how the boy got into the storage unit but sourcestold KDVRhe had been dead for a “long time” before being found.
Elisha Pankey.Aurora Police Department
Prior to her arrest, Elisha Pankey allegedly confessed to an anonymous source that her son had been living in a dog crate before he died. On the night of his death, Caden allegedly cried out for help saying he was hot in the crate, which had a blanket placed on top, the source told investigators. He was not let out and was found dead the next day.
Court documentsreveal Elisha Pankey may have cooperated with investigatorsafter being charged, the Associated Press reports.
Leland Pankey is currently incarerated on separate charges unrelated to Caden’s death, the AP reports. Attorney information for both Leland and Elisha Pankey was unavailable at the time of this writing.
source: people.com
